Melissa Bobe is the author of Nascent Witch, The Illustrated Woman, Season of the Witch, and Sibyls. Her collection Electric Trees won the 2023 New York Author Project, after which Melissa went on to win the Indie Author Project’s 2024 Indie Author of the Year Award. She has published fiction with Whisper House Press (forthcoming September 2025), Intrepidus Ink, Bards and Sages, Urhi Publishing, Wyldblood Press, and World Weaver Press. After years of teaching college English, Melissa now works as a librarian. You can find her at abookbumble.com and on social media @abookbumble.