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Melissa Duge Spiers is an award-winning memoirist, screenwriter, and essayist based in Silicon Valley, CA. Her upcoming memoir, The Glory Whole, won the 2021 Book Pipeline Unpublished Manuscript competition, and her first feature screenplay, Brave Woman, garnered awards and placement in Sundance, Austin Film Festival, Final Draft Big Break, The Athena Film Festival LA Lab, Cinequest, Cynosure, and others.

Melissa also writes for magazines and blogs, with work appearing in The Huffington Post, Metropolitan Palm Beach and Metropolitan New York magazines, Forbes.com, The WSJ Online, MSN magazine, Bitch magazine, SF Gate, and the upcoming anthology Take the Fruit, Flood the Desert. A graduate of Barnard College/Columbia University (B.A. English Literature) and Andrews Academy, Melissa is represented by Dani Segelbaum at The Carol Mann Agency.