Melissa Colasanti is a mother and an author. She has a BFA in fiction from Boise State University. Her writing has appeared in Lithub, Memoir Magazine, The Coffin Bell Journal and others. She is the Stephen R. Kustra scholar in creative writing for 2019, and was awarded the Glenn Balch Award for fiction in 2020.
Praise for Call Me Elizabeth Lark: A long-ago vanished child, a still grieving mother, a woman on the run with her young son, and a truckload of family secrets...these are the ingredients for Colasanti's Call Me Elizabeth Lark. Say goodbye to sleep and read it like I did, under the covers and straight through. A disturbing thrill ride crackling with tension. --Kimberly Belle, internationally bestselling author of Stranger in the Lake Lyrical and riveting, Call Me Elizabeth Lark contains layers of mysteries that will surprise and thrill its readers. With heart-pounding twists, decades-old secrets, and complex characters knotted together by guilt and betrayal, this book is a stunning page-turner. I devoured it in a single day. --Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister Call Me Elizabeth Lark is everything I love about thrillers: strong voice, complex characters with lots of family secrets, and so many twists I couldn't put the book down. Don't miss this fascinating and expertly told thriller exploring the truth and lies among mothers, sisters and wives. --Vanessa Lillie, Amazon bestselling author of Little Voices and For the Best