Melissa Ivanco-Murray

Melissa Ivanco-Murray studied Russian and International Relations with a track in Nuclear Engineering at the United States Military Academy, graduating in 2011 and subsequently serving for 10 years as a Military Police officer. She then went on to earn a PhD from the University of Virginia in Slavic Languages & Literatures, because she doesn't know how to relax and has a weird obsession with all things language...that's why she's studied six of them over the years (though don't ask her to speak any of them anymore; she's terribly rusty at the conversation part).

 

Melissa currently resides in Virginia with her husband Sean and a horde of fur-children (and one human child). In between writing books and bad poetry, Melissa dabbles in various art mediums and continues to moonlight as Malice, the lead guitarist and vocalist of Virginia-based metalcore band Olga's Burning Sparrows. They have two songs out with more on the way--go give them a listen!