Melanie Bishop

Melanie Bishop has been publishing short stories in literary magazines since 1991. Her debut YA novel, My So-Called Ruined Life (Book One of the Tate McCoy Series) was released in 2014 by Torrey House Press, and was a finalist for both the Firecracker Awards and the John Gardner Award in Fiction. Book Two, The Savior of Me, is due out in 2017. She's also marketing a short story cycle, Home for Wayward Girls. A creative writing professor for twenty-two years at Prescott College in Arizona, Melanie now offers instruction, editing and coaching through Lexi Services, and hosts writing retreats in Carmel, California.

BookmarkedJuly 27, 2016

Melanie Bishop’s Nine Writers on Loss & Grief

By Melanie Bishop

One of the most painful parts of loss and grief is the way it alienates us at the time we most need human understanding….

Features, MotherhoodFebruary 17, 2014

In the Form of Birds

By Melanie Bishop

The summer my father died I bought a book on Southwestern birds. It was he who had given me my first feeder on my 8th birthday…