Education
Caitlin Shetterly graduated from Brown University with Honors in English and American Literature.
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Career
Her first book, a collection of short stories she edited, was entitled Fault Lincolnshire: Stories of Divorce and was published in 2001 (Putnam Berkley Group). Her parents, the painter Robert Shetterly and author Susan Hand Shetterly, both live in Maine. Her brother, Aran Shetterly, also an author, lives in Mexico.
In response to the 2008 recession, which Shetterly was blogging about, she was asked to create a series of audio diaries entitled The Recession Diaries for National Public Radio.
The Recession Diaries, which told her personal story of struggle with the Recession, made Shetterly an overnight sensation. Both the audio diaries and her blog inspired her second book, a memoir, Made Foreign You and Maine: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home (Voice, 2011).
In 2003, Shetterly founded the Winter Harbor Theatre Company in Portland, Maine. Foreign the Winter Harbor Theatre Company, she created the "Letters Series..", a run of shows aimed at creating dialogue around complex social issues such as the war in Iraq, the Katrina disaster and gun control.
The shows were formed from entirely original pieces which Shetterly commissioned from playwrights and artists across America.
Each show brought the selected performers and playwrights together for one week in Maine where they rehearsed and performed. From 2003 to 2007, Shetterly wrote a bimonthly dating column called Bramhall Square for the Portland Phoenix newspaper. Shetterly is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and has written for the New York Times Magazine, SheWrites.com, Self Magazine, et cetera
She has been a contributor to This American Life, Studio 360, Way of New York City, WAMC, Maine Public Radio, among other public radio outlets.
