Melanie Viets was born and raised in northern Vermont, where she lives with her family on an old hill farm. She is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program.WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:Strata, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2018–2019Landskein, an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2016–2017The Pattern of the Scatter, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2015–2016