Melissa Welliver

Melissa Welliver writes Young Adult Speculative novels. She works at Writementor and runs the Community Writing Hub for Children’s writers. Her new series To The Death, described as THE HUNGER GAMES meets THE LAST OF US, will be released in March 2026 with Hachette. She has two dystopian rom-coms, My Love Life and the Apocalypse and Soulmates and Other Ways to Die, published with Chicken House Books. The first in her dark dystopian trilogy, The Undying Tower, was published by Fox and Ink Books (formally UCLan Publishing) in August 2024.

Melissa’s books have been translated into several territories and languages. She has been longlisted for the Bath Novel Award, the #BNAKids award, and Mslexia’s Children’s Novel Prize, and she was shortlisted for both the inaugural Hachette Children’s Novel Award in association with New Writing North, and the Wells Book for Children competition. Melissa has also listed for several school reading competitions, including being shortlisted for the Dudley Children’s Book Awards in 2024. She lives in the Northwest of England with her Bassetoodle, Zelda, and is represented by  Lucy Irvine.