Joelle Mellon received a B.A. in creative writing from Carnegie Mellon University and a master's degree in library science from San Jose State University. Her first book, The Virgin Mary in the Perceptions of Women, was published by McFarland & Company in 2008. When she writes fiction, she prefers to focus on fantasy/sf, as she has been a huge fan of those genres since before J.K. Rowling made them socially acceptable. Her work has also appeared in several internationally distributed magazines, including Renaissance, Pirates, and most regularly, Faerie. Over time, she has come to understand th...