About the Author
Melissa Hart grew up in Southern California. She earned her BA in literature from UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies, and her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. She taught at Ventura College and Santa Barbara City College before moving to Oregon. She currently teaches Magazine Writing at the University of Oregon, and teaches Introduction to Memoir for UC Berkeley’s online extension program. The latter course is available to the general public.
Hart has led workshops for Oregon Writers’ Colony, the Willamette Writers, North Coast Redwood Writers, and Oregon’s chapter of The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She teaches distance-learning Humanities courses for Laurel Springs School, and writes resource books for Teacher Created Resources.
Melissa Hart lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband, photographer Jonathan B. Smith, and their three dogs, five cats, and four rabbits. She enjoys international and local travel, gardening, running and hiking, and working with owls at the Cascades Raptor Center.
