Melodie Winawer

Melodie Winawer is the author of two novels. ANTICIPATION, a dual timeline story set in late Byzantine and modern Greece, is scheduled for publication in November, 2021. THE SCRIBE OF SIENA (2017), a medieval Italian historical novel that explores the mystery of Siena’s devastation by the Plague, has been translated into German, Czech, Polish and Norwegian. Melodie has also published a short story, 778, which is included in the collection WE ALL FALL DOWN: STORIES OF PLAGUE AND RESILIENCE.

Melodie, an associate professor of neurology at Columbia University, is a physician and scientist, with degrees in biological psychology, medicine, and epidemiology. She treats patients, conducts grant-funded research, and has published over fifty nonfiction articles and book chapters. To find the energy to write fiction, she relies on unflagging enthusiasm, ashtanga yoga, and a lot of green tea. Melodie lives with her spouse and their three teenagers in Brooklyn, New York and Ludlow, Vermont.