Megan Mellen is a white writer living in the ancestral homelands of the suq̀ʷabš (Suquamish) and dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish) people in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. She has degrees in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College and Northwestern University, but the written word is her first love. Her writing spans the realistic and the speculative, and features themes of agency and authenticity. When not writing, she can be found traveling the world in search of live music with her wife, or snuggling her pug Bader the Supreme Canine.