Melissa Hatch (2000, MFA 2005)

Melissa Hatch has completed her first year as an MFA student at WCSU.  She is taking some time off to paint as well as by request and now has her work online at Murals by Melissa. She is always interested in freelance illustration work. She is hoping to get Mina Malina Has Lost Her Spots, her first children's book, published in the near future.  This book won the 2002 Tassy Walden Award: New Voices in Children's Literature and First Prize in the Tassys (2004) for her Young Adult Fantasy novel, Azi's Story.  The Tassy is sponsored by the Shoreline Arts Alliance in Guilford, CT. If anyone is interested in having a mural painted in their home or workplace.