Melissa Llanes Brownlee (she/her), a native Hawaiian writer living in Japan, has work published and forthcoming in Quarterly West, Wigleaf, The Threepenny Review, Matchbook, Bluestem, Sunlight Press and Cutleaf Journal, and honored in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and Wigleaf Top 50. Read Hard Skin (2022) and Kahi and Lua (2022) and look out for Bitter over Sweet (2025) from Santa Fe Writers Project. She tweets @lumchanmfa and talks story at melissallanesbrownlee.com.
Stories in Smokelong Quarterly
Story:
in ache
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Melissa Llanes Brownlee
Interviewer in Smokelong Quarterly
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Interview:
Smoke & Mirrors with
Sandra Carlson Khalil
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Ella Hormel
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