A Storyteller
Little-Known Lives in Story
Writer Melissa Walsh processes into story characters and events she encounters from learning and living, seeking to deliver Truth as tale in fiction and as dispatch in essay. With the faith that resplendent narrative exists everywhere, Melissa tracks real revelations resting quietly in overlooked places and sets them into compelling story, showcasing little-known people and circumstances, as captured in her discovery, filtered by her understanding, and enlivened with her imagination.
About Melissa
A Working-Class Wordsmith
Born in Detroit in 1967, Melissa Walsh has been shaped by the working class, enlightened by the liberal arts, touched by Grace, conditioned by struggle, and blessed with the vigorous crazy that goes with raising sons. From this experience, she shapes her thoughts and discoveries as saga, poetry, memoir, myth, anecdote, or report.
Melissa became the first person in her family to earn a college degree in 1989. She worked as a book editor and freelance writer early in her career. Later, with four young sons to provide for, Melissa pivoted her career into the automotive and defense industries. Yet she continued writing outside business hours for newspapers and magazines. In 2005, Melissa authored a nonfiction title, The Rookie Hockey Mom, revised in 2012.
Despite Melissa's 9-to-5 role today as a content strategist, she finds time to write for leisure most early mornings, resulting in numerous published articles and essays; several unpublished short stories, a collection of poems, and a novel; and a comedy teleplay and dramatic screenplay she's actively pitching.
Melissa's passion is telling stories grounded in historical and social truth. Her style prompts the reader to explore and process alternate perspectives.
