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.
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 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.
Contact: melissa.brakel at gmail.com
