Melanie Bishop

Melanie Bishop has taught writing or led creative writing retreats in Arizona’s Sierra Ancha Wilderness, At Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti (www.arcosanti.org), in the Cycladic Islands of Greece, and, now, on the Monterey Peninsula in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Bishop recently took early retirement from Prescott College, where she was on the creative writing faculty for twenty-two years, and was founder and editor of Alligator Juniper, the college’s award-winning, national literary magazine. Melanie holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona, and was awarded a screenwriting fellowship from the Chesterfield Writers’ Film Project, co-sponsored by Universal Studios and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. The Makeover, a screenplay written during the fellowship year, later went on to place in America’s Best Screenplay Competition.

Bishop’s young adult novel, My So-Called Ruined Life, was released in January, 2014 by Torrey House Press. She’s peddling two books at present: a memoir, Some Glad Morning; and a short story cycle, Home for Wayward Girls. The cycle has been a finalist in contests five times over the past four years: The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, the University of Iowa Press Short Fiction Awards, the Doris Bakwin Award, the Tartt Fiction Award, and Hidden River‘s Eludia Award. She’s also published short fiction and nonfiction in Glimmer Train, Georgetown Review, Greensboro Review, Florida Review, Potomac Review, Valley Guide, Hospice Magazine, Puerto del Sol, The American and Family Circle.

Currently, Melanie enjoys writing, teaching, and leading retreats in Carmel, California. She’s at work on Book Two of the Tate McCoy Series, and is the book reviewer for Carmel Magazine. http://www.e-digitaleditions.com/i/306537