Phyllis Melhado

The former Vice President of Public Relations for the Estee Lauder Companies, Phyllis Melhado's articles and essays have been published in Town & Country Magazine and Cosmopolitan.

She has read her short fiction at New York’s legendary Red Room Literary Salon and her short stories have been published by The Scarlet Leaf Review, Beyond Words Literary Review and Funny Pearls British Humour Magazine. She has ghosted a best-selling beauty book as well as a syndicated fashion and beauty column, is an optioned scriptwriter, and consulted on the award-winning indie film Hurricane Bianca.

The Spa At Lavender Lane, her debut novel, was a 2020 American Fiction Awards Women's Fiction finalist. She is the co-author of the widely read Chasing Life, an inspiring true story of love, sacrifice and triumph, against all odds.

​On Sundays she can be found at New York’s Art Students League where she paints in oil. Her muse for all things is Modigliani - her totally swagalicious Schnoodle, known as Mo to his legions of friends in and around Central Park.

She has a master’s degree in Communications from NYU and is a member of The Author’s Guild, New York Women in Film and Television, American Women in Communications, and Fashion Group International.