About Malissa

Coming from a long line of storytellers, Malissa has been telling stories for as long as she can remember. After her writing earned national gold and silver awards in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in high school, she decided to pursue Creative Writing in college. Meanwhile, a high school study abroad year in France led to a college study abroad year in France and a double-major in French.

The unlikely combination led to her first corporate job, on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing team in 2009, as the Kindle was launched internationally. As a native to the Seattle area, she's filled up her major local company bingo card since then, with editing, writing and translation roles at Starbucks, Expedia and others – all while writing novels.

Today, she's a seasoned internal communicator and editor and is querying an epic fantasy novel, Lark's Flight. She has an MFA in popular fiction from Stonecoast, an editing certificate from the University of Washington, and completed the Denver Publishing Institute. She also has two kids and a loving partner, and is constantly shifting to balance kids' and family activities, her day job, her personal writing, and freelance work.

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