Melina C. McTigue was born in beautiful Worcester, Massachusetts, and has been writing stories since she first hijacked her mother's Smith-Corona in 1983 to bang out "kfsdljkweinclaewenfep," which her mother still regards as some of her finest work. A government policy administrator by day, she spends her evenings trying to recreate that first masterpiece, this time with more space breaks. Melina lives outside of Boston with two cats and blogs intermittently at Melina Stories.