Pieces of My Mother (24 page)

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Melissa Cistaro is a bookseller and events coordinator at Book Passage, the legendary San Francisco Bay Area independent bookstore, where she has hosted more than two hundred authors. A writer and mother, her work has been published in numerous literary journals including the
New
Ohio
Review
,
Anderbo.com
, and
Brevity
, as well as in the anthologies
Love
and
Profanity
and
Cherished
, alongside Anne Lamott and Jane Smiley and other writers. Melissa graduated with honors from UCLA and continued her education with the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and at the Tin House Writer's Workshop in Portland.

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