Mel Kassel lives in Chicago. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop currently at work on her debut short story collection and novel. 

Her fiction has been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Her work has won a World Fantasy Award for short fiction and been anthologized in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021.

Occasionally, she appears as a co-host on The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast.

Instagram: @MelKassel

Email: melanieruthkassel at gmail dot com

Representation: Alexa Stark (astark@writershouse.com)