A white woman with long dark hair and light eyes smiles at the camera. We only see her head and shoulders. She is wearing a black and white cardigan over a red shirt. Behind her is the underside of an umbrella showing stars and galaxies against a background of dark blues and purples

Melissa Burkart

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A white woman with long dark hair and light eyes smiles at the camera. We only see her head and shoulders. She is wearing a black and white cardigan over a red shirt. Behind her is the underside of an umbrella showing stars and galaxies against a background of dark blues and purples

Melissa Burkart (she/her) lives in Maine with her family and writes fantasy stories in the cracks between wrangling her two perpetual chaos machines (aka kids). She always has an audiobook and knitting project in progress, and she frequently runs away to join the theatre. Her recent short fiction has appeared in Trollbreath Magazine and the Sudden Fictions podcast. Connect her on Bluesky @mwithpen.bsky.social