MELANIE VILLINES

Melanie Villines is an award-winning screenwriter, published novelist, and producer of documentary TV programs who lives in Los Angeles. Her one-hour TV pilot, Hollywood Ghostwriter, based on her seven years as a ghostwriter in Los Angeles, won seven screenwriting competitions in 2024—including Hollywood Best, New York Screenwriting Awards, The Great American Script Contest, and Las Vegas Screenwriting Festival—and Grand Prize TV Pilot in the 2025 Golden State Film Festival. Her novel, Windy City Sinners (Sugar Skull Press, 2015), was reviewed by Patrick T. Reardon as “a freewheeling, wry and whimsical novel about the deepest human feelings and questions.” She received a B.A. from DePaul University and studied TV writing at UCLA Extension.

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Photo: Olvera Street, Los Angeles.