Melissa Cistaro
Author · 2 books
Melissa Cistaro's stories and interviews have appeared in The New Ohio Review, Brevity, The Huffington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, PBS: To the Contrary, Bookish, Good Housekeeping and the anthologies Love and Profanity and Cherished. Melissa graduated from UCLA and followed her literary pursuits through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and the Tin House Writer’s Workshop in Portland. Between the years of raising her children, writing, bookselling, teaching horseback riding, and curating a business in equestrian antiques, she completed her first memoir. Melissa also works as a bookseller and event coordinator at Book Passage in Corte Madera, where she has introduced hundreds of authors. After working on her memoir over the course of twelve years, she is passionate about mentoring other writers and sharing what she has learned on her journey from bookseller to published author. She is currently writing a novel about the intertwined fates of three women.
