Melissa Bobe is a writer living in New York. She’s the author of THE ILLUSTRATED WOMAN, SIBYLS, and the Millennial Witch series, which includes NASCENT WITCH and its sequel FAMILIAR TERRITORY. Her collection ELECTRIC TREES won the 2023 New York Author Project, after which Melissa went on to win the Indie Author Project’s 2024 Author of the Year Award. Melissa likes to bounce from genre to genre, but you’ll always find her somewhere under that big speculative umbrella.
When she’s not writing, Melissa works as a librarian. Before library school, she taught college English as she earned her PhD in literature. Before that, she earned a handful of Master’s degrees in literature and writing, all while tutoring and teaching. And before that, she worked shelving books and leading programs for kids in libraries. Now that everything’s come full circle, Melissa plans never to change careers again! (At least, not for a little while.)
Melissa is mama to four fabulous rescue cats: Mina, Aoife, Anya, and Raven. When she isn’t busy tending to their every demand for cuddles and food, you can find Melissa hanging around the ballet barre or cooking up new recipes in her kitchen.
Melissa feels a strong affinity with her namesake, the honeybee, and hopes to have hives of her own someday. In the meantime, bees are her favorite nonfiction topic to read about and they often make appearances in her fiction.
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