Melissa Sipin

Melissa R. Sipin is a writer from Carson, California. She won Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open and the Washington Square Review’s Flash Fiction Award. She coedited Kuwento: Lost Things, an anthology on Philippine myths (Carayan Press, 2014), and her work has appeared in Guernica, Eleven Eleven, Hyphen, and other publications. She is the cofounder of TAYO Literary Magazine, and her fiction has won scholarships or fellowships from Kundiman, VONA/Voices, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and was short-listed for the David T. K. Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. As the Poets & Writers McCrindle Fellow in Los Angeles, she is hard at work on a short-story collection and a novel.