Melissa Blair (she/her/kwe) is an Anishinaabe-kwe of mixed ancestry living on Turtle Island. She splits her time between Treaty 9 in Northern Ontario and the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg in Ottawa, Canada. She has a graduate degree in applied linguistics and discourse studies, loves movies, and hates spoons. Melissa has a BookTok account where she discusses and reviews her favorite books, including Indigenous and queer fiction, feminist literature, and nonfiction. She is the author of A Broken Blade, the first book in the Halfling Saga. Find her on TikTok at @melissas.bookshelf.