Melissa Coleman

Melissa Coleman is the author of This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family's Heartbreak, a New York Times bestseller and Indie Next Pick. It was a People’s Pick in People magazine, excerpted in O, The Oprah Magazine, and a nonfiction finalist for the New England Book Award and Maine Literary Award. Melissa is a columnist for Maine Home + Design magazine and organizes the Super Famous Writers Series at the Telling Room, a Portland writing center for children and young adults. She lives in Maine with her husband and twin daughters.