Detroit's Challenge the Wind Program Adjusts Its Sails
Great Lakes Scuttlebutt
FeaturesSailors know that you can't change the wind, but you can adjust your sails—a lesson that translates to navigating through the shifting winds of life....
Born in Detroit in 1967, Melissa became a first-generation college graduate in 1989. As a young professional in the 1990s, she worked as an editor and writer. Later, she pivoted her career from publishing to working in the automotive and defense industries to secure increased income for raising her four sons. Yet Melissa continued writing outside business hours for newspapers and magazines. In 2005, Melissa authored a nonfiction title, The Rookie Hockey Mom, revised in 2012.
Melissa's day job today is as a Content Strategist for MRM Detroit. She also is a member-owner of Book Suey, a co-op bookstore in Hamtramck, Michigan. Her passion is writing fiction grounded in historical and social truth, resulting in book-length manuscripts awaiting refinement and publication.
Sailors know that you can't change the wind, but you can adjust your sails—a lesson that translates to navigating through the shifting winds of life....
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