Melissa

About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation mom/writer
Location United States
Introduction I'm in my thirties, raising two children, two dogs and a cat, sharing life with my true love. I write young adult fiction, adult fiction, plays, and poetry. Fresh out of college I worked as a dog handler, helping to raise and train sled dogs for racing mushers in AK and PA.
Interests A writer, mother, reader, and sometime dog sled musher. Full-time dreamer.
Favorite Movies Pan's Labyrinth, Once, Stranger Than Fiction, Born into Brothels, Little Women, Spitfire Grill, Pride and Prejudice, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Favorite Music Bluegrass, folk, classical, rock, Celtic, the Nields, Neil Young, Nickel Creek, Wailing Jennies, Gillian Welch, Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, Iris Dement, Tori Amos, Cowboy Junkies.
Favorite Books Little Women, Moby Dick, Harry Potter series, the Green Knowe series, Scarlet Letter, Memoirs of a Geisha, Cold Mountain, the Color Purple, Lost in a Good Book, Pride and Prejudice, Gnomes, anything by Barbara Kingsolver, James Herriot, or Pearl S. Buck.

The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?

Sitting on a lily pad with the sun on my back, watching the birds and taking a cool dip now and then.