Melissa Castleman has written novels, magazine and newspaper features, and restaurant and theater reviews. She recently finished a middle-grade novel set in Victorian England, the first of a potential series. Her next book is science fiction.

 

She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and worked in a Michelin-starred restaurant in France while going to professional cooking school. Studying literature at Harvard was easier than deboning a rabbit while being timed and judged.

 

When she’s not writing, you can find Melissa cooking spaghetti bolognese or hiking with her dog. She lives with her professor husband and son in a creaky house in Connecticut that was once an 1800’s silkworm farm.