Melissa CateMELISSA CATE has always been a storyteller-when she was a preschooler, her mom would record the bedtime stories Melissa would tell at night and type them up for her. After thirty years of mostly academic, devotional, or biographical writing, she jumpd headfirst back into fiction in October 2023 and was a Write on the River winner in the spring of 2024. She has published four short stories in anthologies in 2025, and her first novel is planned to be published in 2026. Melissa currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family but is a Midwesterner through and through. Read More Read Less