>Melissa R. Sipin is a writer from Carson, CA. She won Glimmer Train's Fiction Open and the Washington Square Review's Flash Fiction Prize. She co-edited Kuwento: Lost Things, an anthology on Philippine myths (Carayan Press, 2014), and her work is in Guernica, Eleven Eleven, and Hyphen Magazine, among others. Cofounder of TAYO Literary Magazine, her fiction has won scholarships and fellowships from Kundiman, VONA/Voices, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and was shortlisted for the David Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. As the Poets & Writers McCrindle Fellow in Los Angeles, she is hard at work on a short story collection and a novel.