MELISSA WAN
I'm a writer living in Manchester, UK.
I was born in 1991 to a Chinese mother and Dutch father and grew up in Lelystad, Holland, before moving to the UK aged 8. In 2012 I graduated with degree in the Social Sciences from the University of Manchester, and in 2018 I was awarded the inaugural Crowdfunded BAME Writers' Scholarship to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Since 2017 my short fiction has been selected for a number of publications, including by Bluemoose Books, Dead Ink Books and Cōnfingō Publishing, among others. In 2019, I was an Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Writing Fellow, and was 2019's Northern Word Factory Apprentice, mentored by Carys Davies and supported by New Writing North.
I'm currently completing my first collection of stories.
Contact: melissa.brakel at gmail.com
I was born in 1991 to a Chinese mother and Dutch father and grew up in Lelystad, Holland, before moving to the UK aged 8. In 2012 I graduated with degree in the Social Sciences from the University of Manchester, and in 2018 I was awarded the inaugural Crowdfunded BAME Writers' Scholarship to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Since 2017 my short fiction has been selected for a number of publications, including by Bluemoose Books, Dead Ink Books and Cōnfingō Publishing, among others. In 2019, I was an Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Writing Fellow, and was 2019's Northern Word Factory Apprentice, mentored by Carys Davies and supported by New Writing North.
I'm currently completing my first collection of stories.
Contact: melissa.brakel at gmail.com
