Originating from Bay City, Michigan, Melissa Brown made her home in Norwich, England over a decade ago. In that time, she has contributed massively to education and the arts, working in the city's nationally-renowned Millennium Library; and teaching English and Creative Writing in the city. Melissa was a featured poet at last year's Norwich: City of Stories launch event and was shortlisted for the IdeasTap Inspires programme. Melissa's debut novel 'Becoming Death' started as a project for National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) - an annual international challenge that encourages entrants to write 50,000 words of a novel within a month. Melissa has not only taken part in this challenge every year for the last ten years but also has run well-attended events for the Norfolk region of Nanowrimo in both Norwich and Great Yarmouth.