Melanie Gideon was born and raised in Rhode Island and now lives in the Bay Area with her husband and son. She graduated from Emerson College with a degree in journalism. She has been a waitress (a very bad, lazy, clumsy waitress). She has worked in advertising. She was a buyer for a company that made one of the first parallel processing supercomputers. Her favorite job was working in a herbal apothecary where she learned to appreciate kale. When she’s not worrying about earthquakes, she is working too hard at housebreaking her puppy. She is the author of two young adult novels, The Map that Breathed and Pucker. The Slippery Year is her first memoir.
