Melissa Seley is a writer, editor, and associate creative director based in Los Angeles and New York. Her literary work has been published in BOMB, Paper Magazine, The Wilder Quarterly, Tokion, Gastronomica, The Spectrum Anthology, H.O.W. Literary Journal, The Last Magazine, and Guernica, where she was a Nonfiction Editor. She is currently at work on an autobiographical novel for which she was named a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Writer-in-Residence.