Melissa Hardy

MELISSA HARDY was born and raised in North Carolina. She has published two novels, A Cry of Bees and Constant Fire, as well as numerous short stories. A third novel, Demon Barrow, is due out shortly with Quarry Press. Her story, "Long Man the River," won the 1994 Journey Prize for the most accomplished piece of short fiction published in Canada in a given year. Hardy is currently working on a novel about the Northern Ontario mining country around Timmins entitled The Drifts.