Melissa R. Sipin is a writer from Carson, CA. She co-edited
Kuwento: Lost Things, an anthology on Philippine myths (Carayan Press 2014), and her work is in
Salon,
Prairie Schooner, Guernica Magazine, and
Slice Literary Magazine, among others. Cofounder of
TAYO Literary Magazine, her fiction has won scholarships/fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Poets & Writers Inc., and Sewanee Writers’ Conference, among others, and is hard at work on a novel inspired by her grandmother’s capture in WWII Philippines.
