Melanie Kanicky is a Melbourne-based author. Born in the Yarra Valley. Melanie has a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Film & Television) from Deakin University, and a Master’s Degree in Writing & Literature, specialising in creative writing and children’s literature. Outside of her studies, Melanie currently manages a bookstore, where she delights in sharing her love of reading and literature with others.

Her short fiction has appeared in the Wyndham Writing Awards Anthology and the Forty South Short Story Anthology, as well as being shortlisted for the 2022 Tasmanian Writers’ Prize. The Weaver is her first novel.