Mel Harding-Shaw is a paranormal romance and urban fantasy writer from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her debut novel City of Souls won Agent's Choice in the RWNZ Great Beginnings Contest. She's also a widely published award-winning writer of short speculative fiction as Melanie Harding-Shaw and has published five books under that name: the Censored City trilogy of near-future novelettes, a short story collection Alt-ernate, and a witchy urban fantasy novella Against the Grain. Mel won the award for Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards. You can find her at www.melaniehardingshaw.com and on social media.
