Michael Patrick MacDonald is an American writer, activist, and organizer. He has focused his community efforts on diverse and inclusive coalition building to reduce violence and promote grassroots leadership from our most impacted communities and families and is on many local and national boards, including the Children’s Defense Fund’s Beat The Odds Essay Selection Committee, Crittenton Women’s Union National Advisory Committee, Families First of Greater Boston Advisory Board, and OrigiNation, Inc. He wrote All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (2007), New York Times Bestselling memoir, and Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion (2008), among other books and essays. MacDonald serves as Author-in-Residence & Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University’s Honors Department.
At MacDowell, Michael continued work on an untitled memoir about teen resiliency and post-traumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of violence. The book will be published by Houghton Mifflin.
