Melanie Sweeney is the author of the forthcoming rom-com, Take Me Home (Putnam, 2024). She holds an MFA in creative writing from New Mexico State University, and her chapbook, Birds as Leaves, about motherhood, gender, nature, and the body, was published by The Lettered Streets Press in 2015. Melanie lives near Houston with her husband, three kids, three cats, and the best worst dog. When she’s not writing, she’s ice skating, embroidering, homeschooling her kids, or learning old One Direction songs on her ukulele.