Melissa
| 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.