Melanie Rawn

{{short description|American author of fantasy literature (born 1954)}}

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Melanie Rawn (born 1954) is an American author of fantasy literature. She received a BA in history from Scripps College and worked as a teacher and editor before becoming a writer.{{cite book | title=St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers | editor=David Pringle | publisher=St. James Press | isbn= 1-55862-205-5|pages=494–495 }}

She has been nominated for a Locus award on three occasions: in 1989 for Dragon Prince in the first novel category, in 1994 for Skybowl in the fantasy novel category, and again in 1995 for Ruins of Ambrai in the fantasy novel category. The third novel in the "Exiles" trilogy has now been "forthcoming" since the late 1990s due to the author suffering from clinical depression and moving on to other projects to facilitate her recovery.{{cite book|last=Rawn|first=Melanie|title=Spellbinder: A Love Story With Magical Interruptions|year=2007|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-7653-5436-5|pages=499–500}} In 2014, Rawn stated via Kate Elliot's blog that she intended to complete the trilogy after finishing the fifth book of the Glass Thorns series.{{cite web |author1=Elliot |first=Kate |date=2014-07-22 |title=Update on Melanie Rawn's EXILES 3, The Captal's Tower |url=http://www.imakeupworlds.com/index.php/2014/07/update-on-melanie-rawns-exiles-3-the-captals-tower/ |access-date=15 July 2022 |website=I Make Up Worlds |authorlink1=Kate Elliot}}