Michelle F. Solomon, M.A., is the Editor and a contributing arts writer/theater critic for artburstmiami.com, a program of the Arts and Business Council of the Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. She also recently helped launched the Broward Arts Journalism Alliance, BAJA, in Broward County, where she served as consultant and managing editor.

Michelle’s current career focus is on creating nontraditional arts newsrooms that
supplement arts coverage to legacy media. These sites serve as consumer-based websites to inform the public about the arts, and also train the next generation of arts journalists.

She is also the editor of miamiartzine.com, funded by the Miami Beach Arts Trust.

Originally from northeastern Pennsylvania, Michelle is a graduate of Emerson College, Boston, Mass., with a master’s degree from the Empire Stage College of the State University of New York at Albany, 

Michelle has been an arts editor at major and mid-sized newspapers, including executive arts editor of the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union and assistant features editor/entertainment at The Detroit (Mich.) Free Press.

She was an on-air entertainment reporter and managing editor of new media for NBC affiliate, WDIV-TV, Detroit, and executive producer of new media at ABC affiliate, Miami’s WPLG-TV, Local 10, where she also developed the syndicated true crime podcast The Florida Files.

In 2023, she was awarded for her visual arts writing for ArtBurst from the Society of Professional Journalists, Florida, and was nominated for the prestigious Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism in 2022. 

She is a member of the American Theater Critics and the Florida Film Critics Circle and is a theater reviewer and movie critic.

She is the volunteer co-chairman of the South Florida Walk to End Alzheimer’s and an advocate for the Alzheimer’s Association.