Melinda Salisbury is the four-time Carnegie nominated and bestselling author of multiple teen and young adult novels, including the Sin Eater's Daughter series, Hold Back the Tide, and Her Dark Wings, a Guardian Children's Book of the Year 2022 and a Reading Agency Book of the Year 2022 pick. Her debut teen novel, EchoStar, a tech thriller aimed at 12–14-year-olds, was published in March 2024 by Barrington Stoke, followed by AdelAIDE in August 2024, The Foundation in January 2025 and Endgame in February 2026.

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Melinda's latest YA novel, Local Gods, was published in the UK by David Fickling Books, and in the US by Sarah Barley Books in summer 2026.

Her first novel, The Sin Eater's Daughter, was the bestselling UK YA debut novel of 2015, and collectively her books have been nominated and shortlisted for numerous national and international awards and accolades, including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Branford Boase, the Edgar Awards, the 2016 and 2019, 2021 and 2023 Carnegie medals, YALSA Best YA 2022, Eason's YA Book of the Month, and more. Her books have been published in sixteen countries to date.

Melinda is a 2026-2027 RLF Fellow and she works as a writing mentor and developmental editor. She also volunteers at a local independent cinema on the East Sussex Coast. Her agents are Claire Wilson at Rogers, Coleridge and White Literary Agency, London, and Pete Knapp at Park, Fine and Brower Literary and Media, New York.