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  MELISSA WAN

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 eight. 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 published by a number of independent presses, including by Bluemoose Books, Nightjar Press, Dead Ink Books and Cōnfingō Publishing. In 2019, I was an Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Writing Fellow, and I 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.
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Contact: melissa.brakel at gmail.com
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