Melissa R. Sipin is a writer from Carson, CA. She won Glimmer Train's Fiction Open and the Washington Square Review's Flash Fiction Prize. She co-edited Kuwento: Lost Things, an anthology on new Philippine myths by Carayan Press and her work is in Glimmer Train, Guernica, Washington Square Review, and Eleven Eleven, among others. Melissa cofounded TAYO Literary Magazine and teaches at Old Dominion University.