About

Melanie Unruh has an MFA in fiction from the University of New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in and is forthcoming in ApricityThe Meadow, Two Hawks Quarterly, The Boiler, New Ohio Review, Post Road, Sixfold, Philadelphia Stories, and Cutthroat, among others. She co-founded Plume: A Writer’s Companion, a community for women and non-binary writers, which has now branched out into Plume: A Writer’s Podcast. At present, she’s working on a YA novel and a short story collection. When she’s not writing or teaching, she enjoys drinking a good cup of chai, listening to audiobooks, smashing the patriarchy, and spending time with her family.