After receiving her MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor in 1999 and being published as a poet, Melanie Marttila decided that she had to listen to the voice of her heart and start writing fantasy and science fiction.
Her story “The Broken Places” appeared in the June 2014 issue of Bastion Science Fiction Magazine and “Downtime” appeared in the fall 2014 issue of On Spec. She is working on several fantasy novels in various stages of drafting, revision, and editing and hopes she will soon have more good writerly news to share.
She blogs at melaniemarttila.ca and lives in Sudbury, Ontario, with spouse and dog, in the house where three generations of her family have lived, on the street that bears her family name.