Melanie Little has been hailed as an author who might “very well become the Alice Munro of our generation.” She has won numerous awards for her essays and short fiction. Her essays for young adults have appeared in two anthologies by Annick Press, Certain Things About My Mother and Nerves Out Loud, which received the Book of the Year Award from ForeWord magazine and was included in The New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age list.
Her highly acclaimed short-story collection, Confidence, was named a Globe and Mail Best Book and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award. In 2005–6, she was the Markin-Flanagan Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary. She continues to work with other writers through workshops, classes, and consultations. This is her first book for young adults.
Little currently lives in Calgary.