Mel Kassel lives in Chicago. She likes to write about obsession, ritual, relationships, and all kinds of creatures.

She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (2020), a Clarion Workshop attendee (2018), a World Fantasy Award winner, and occasionally a co-host on The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast. Her fiction has been published in several places and selected for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021.

Instagram: @MelKassel

Email: melanieruthkassel at gmail dot com

Representation: Kirby Kim at Janklow & Nesbit Associates (kkim@janklow.com)