Michelle Write, previously known as Children’s Author Michelle Vasiliu, is best known for her award-winning children’s picture book, My Happy Sad Mummy, now in its second, revised edition, including teachers’ and parents’ notes.

My Happy Sad Mummy, along with Michelle’s second picture book, Together Things, tackles the reality of families raising young children where a parent or primary carer is experiencing mental health challenges.

Using her own authentic lived experience, Michelle weaves messages of hope and recovery throughout her narratives to bring light to darkness.

Michelle has also published junior fiction chapter books and children’s non-fiction titles.

More recently, she has ventured out into the world of adult writing, in particular performance writing including spoken work and short film. She finds these mediums to be an exhilarating way to tell her stories in a uniquely artistic and creative manner.

Michelle is a passionate Mental Health Ambassador who uses her experience as an Author, Teacher, Trainer and Mental Health Consumer Consultant to give talks, presentations and performances about Mental Health realities and complex trauma.