Melanie S. Hatter

Melanie S. Hatter is the author of Malawi’s Sisters, which was selected by Edwidge Danticat as the winner of the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize and was published by Four Way Books in 2019. Her debut novel, The Color of My Soul, won the 2011 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize, and Let No One Weep for Me, Stories of Love and Loss was released in 2015. Melanie began her career as a newspaper journalist and has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and nonprofit communications and marketing. She serves on the boards of the Washington Independent Review of Books and the Washington Writers’ Publishing House.