ABOUT

Melissa Bobe is a writer living in New York. She’s the author of THE ILLUSTRATED WOMAN, SEASON OF THE WITCH, ELECTRIC TREES, NASCENT WITCH, and SIBYLS, and she has new fiction on the way. 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 lives with her husband, an elementary school teacher who loves manga, comics, and poetry. They have five rescue cats: Mina, Aoife, Buddy, Anya, and Raven. The spirit of their beloved first cat, Inéz, hangs around the apartment, too. Also in their home are chess boards, a ballet barre, myriad art supplies, a coffee nook, an assortment of potted plants, and an ever-growing library.

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.