About Melissa

Melissa Welliver writes Young Adult Speculative novels. She works at Writementor and runs the Community Writing Hub for Children's writers. She has two dystopian rom-coms, My Love Life and the Apocalypse and Soulmates and Other Ways to Die, published with Chicken House Books. The Undying Tower was published by Fox and Ink in 2024. To The Death and Hunting Season, her zombie island duology, were released by Hachette Children's.

Melissa has completed the acclaimed Curtis Brown Creative Novel Writing Course for children under the tutelage of Catherine Johnson. She has been longlisted for the Bath Novel Award, the #BNAKids award, and Mslexia's Children's Novel Prize, and she was shortlisted for both the inaugural Hachette Children's Novel Award in association with New Writing North, and the Wells Book for Children competition. She lives in the Northwest of England with her Bassetoodle, Zelda, and is represented by Lucy Irvine of Darley Anderson.