Melissa Hart is the author of the memoirs Wild Within: How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family (Lyons, 2015) and Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood (Seal, 2009), and the YA novel Avenging the Owl (Sky Pony, 2016). She's contributing editor at The Writer Magazine, and a nonfiction writing instructor at Southern New Hampshire University.