Melissa is a writer and editor who listens deeply in order to suggest how to effectively braid the threads of your story together.

In her late teens, Melissa began publishing poetry (Southern Poetry Review, Number One, Cumberland Poetry Review) and winning writing awards (ARTS Award: National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, National Scholastic Gold Writing Award, Presidential Scholar Finalist for Writing).

After completing her education at Skidmore College in 2002, she spent a few months working for Homeland Security before she began traveling the world. Melissa documented her experiences in a travel column (Views from A Broad, The Nashville Scene), helped organize monthly writing events in Amsterdam (wordsinhere), and also worked as a crime reporter (The Review Appeal). All of this enriched her world view and enhanced her writing style.

Since then, she facilitates workshops, provides marketing and editing services, creates websites for other writers. She also publishes poetry and flash fiction (under the name Melissa N. Warren) and was awarded the FREE Stamp Flash Award for her poem in Gordon Square Review. She was also chosen as a Finalist for Best of the Net (2019) and the LitCle Breakthrough Writing Residency (2024).

Every service she offers is devoted to encouraging writers, whether she is facilitating a course about mother loss (Writing with Hope, a foundational writing class for NY Times best-selling author Hope Edelman) or sitting beside a middle school student to explore a prompt. When she works with clients, she is engaged and present — whether on a phone call with an octogenarian memoirist, on the Zoom screen with rising seniors editing their college essays, or in-person at retreats and writing circles.