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Michelle Delgado

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  • Freelance Writer, Marketer and Content Writer, Freelance
Washington, D.C.
As seen in: Medium, Bloomberg CityLab, The Atlantic, WIRED Magazine, Broadly, Substack, Vox, Salon, Smithsonian Magazine, Business 2 Community and
I cover DIY and obsessions. culture writer @readfenix, @SmithsonianMag,@TheAtlantic, @voxdotcom etc. @summerhouse_dc creator. she/her.

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Michelle Delgado’s Biography

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Michelle Delgado is a freelance journalist based in Washington, DC. She writes about culture including music, television, movies, food, and more. She also reports character-driven feature stories.

She began her career in the events division of The Atlantic. As of February 2017, she writes surveys, analyzes data, and reports longform reports for Clutch.co, a ratings and reviews startup based in DC.

She is a graduate of University of Virginia, where she studied English and American Studies.

Michelle Delgado’s Journalist Portfolio

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Belly Dancing to Recover From Cancer Treatment

Belly Dancing to Recover From Cancer Treatment

A breast-cancer survivor's unlikely therapy for people looking to return to life before chemo.

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How Small Business Marketing Can Succeed in 2017

How Small Business Marketing Can Succeed in 2017

In the final installment of the 2017 Small Business Digital Marketing Survey, Clutch surveyed 350 small busin…

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The Refugee Who Became Class President

The Refugee Who Became Class President

In Charlottesville, Virginia, one class president's journey through American public education exemplifies a n…

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From Game of Thrones to The Witch, 2016 was packed with hypercompetent teen girl antiheroes

From Game of Thrones to The Witch, 2016 was packed with hypercompetent teen girl antiheroes

TV and movies were packed full of young women taking charge of their lives - often bloodily.

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Stranger Things' monster is terrifying. It's also a distraction from the true villains.

Stranger Things' monster is terrifying. It's also a distraction from the true villains.

Critical focus on the show's 1980s homages comes at the cost of ignoring its larger sci-fi influences.

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Local teens lobby for refugee rights

Local teens lobby for refugee rights

In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, a small group of Charlottesville teenagers traveled to …

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Articles

PAPER CUTS: Chloe Lauter Delivers An Electrifying Debut In “THE FLAYED MAN” (REVIEW)

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There’s an Emergency Department nurse in suburban Las Vegas who’s concealing a reality-shattering secret. As trauma patients are wheeled in, her senses twitch with the overwhelming scent of blood. Hidden in her locker, a vial of stolen blood awaits her. She’ll inject it directly into her veins during her break. She has to—or her body will transform into something dangerous she might not be able to control.
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PAPER CUTS: Rae Wilde Delivers Feral Feminist Horrors in “I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR MY POSITION ON MEN” (REVIEW)

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Author Rae Wilde isn’t afraid to get confrontational. On TikTok, she doesn’t hesitate to reply to anything that strikes her as being particularly stupid. She’s got a knack for dismantling pro-AI arguments and a talent for plucking particularly absurd incel videos from the short-form video slipstream. It’s fitting, then, that her newest book has a title that serves as a litmus test for potential readers.
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PAPER CUTS: Chuck Tingle’s “FABULOUS BODIES” Asks Existential Questions About the Nature of Fame (REVIEW)

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What would you do for $5 million? If you’re Poppy Stringer, you’ll do anything—including picking up the wrecked corpse of your favorite pop star in an unmarked refrigerated truck. It’s less of a leap than the wild premise might suggest. Poppy is a successful influencer, but the money she earns isn’t enough to survive single parenthood while also funding the extravagant life she’s determined to provide for her daughter.
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Virginia Press Association

2014 - Education Writing

Third Place

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Virginia Press Association

2014 - Feature Story Writing

Third Place: Charlottesville, Albemarle schools embrace refugee students

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Virginia Press Association

2014 - Feature Series or Continuing Story

Second Place with Sean Tubbs, Effie Nicholaou, Reuben Jones, Michelle Delgado & Brian Wheeler Series: A year following the redesign planning for Charlottesville's West Main Streetscape

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