Melissa R. Sipin is a writer from Carson, California. She won
Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open and the
Washington Square Review’s
Flash Fiction Prize. She co-edited
Kuwento: Lost Things, an anthology on Philippine myths (Carayan Press 2014), and her work is in
Glimmer Train,
Guernica,
Washington Square Review,
Guernica/PEN Flash Series, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts,
Eleven Eleven, and
Hyphen magazine, among others. Cofounder of
TAYO Literary Magazine, her fiction has won scholarships/fellowships from Kundiman, VONA/Voices Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley’s Community of Writers, and was shortlisted for the David T. K. Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. As the
Poets & Writers McCrindle Fellow in Los Angeles, she is hard at work on a short story collection and novel. More at:
msipin.com.