MELANIE BISHOP writes fiction, nonfiction and screenplays, and has taught all of these subjects for the past twenty-one years as a professor at Prescott College in Arizona. Melanie has published short stories in numerous literary magazines, including Glimmer Train, Greensboro Review and Georgetown Review, and Potomac Review. Melanie is the founding editor and fiction and nonfiction editor of Alligator Juniper, Prescott College’s award-winning literary magazine. My So-Called Ruined Life is her first young adult novel.

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