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.
I’m a writer trying to make sense of the world by putting words into a shiny box and sharing them with some people. I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, on the ancestral and present-day homelands of the dxʷdəwʔabš (“People of the Inside”) (Duwamish People), suq̀ʷabš (“People of Clear Salt Water”) (Suquamish People) and nəxwqíyt nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm̕ (“Strong People”) (Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe).
I write about family, and grief, and emotional openness, and what goes through a brain. So, you know, life. Find those themes in my first novel, which will get done when it gets done.
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