Melissa A. Volker

Melissa A. Volker is a reader, writer, beauty therapist and water woman. She blogs about surfing and stand up paddle boarding; writes eco-fiction, romance and short stories. She lives in Cape Town with her husband, two daughters and a cat.
Her first eco-romantic thriller, A Fractured Land was published in the US in 2018 and was republished along with her second novel, Shadow Flicker, by Karavan Press in South Africa in 2019. Shadow Flicker won the Romance Writers Organisation of South Africa's Strelitzia prize for the most promising manuscript in 2017. Melissa's short story, Spa Ritual, was published in the South African anthology: Hair - Weaving and Unpicking Stories of Identity. Her new novelette, The Pool Guy, is coming soon.