Melissa is left-handed.
Melissa Bianco was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
She is the daughter of Andrea Tiffany, a bus driver, and Bill
Brouwers, an electrician.
She graduated from Capilano College in 1991 with an Associate Arts
and Sciences Diploma in Media Resources. Soon after graduating from
college, Melissa worked as an Extras Casting Director for both
commercials and television movies. She has also worked as a Talent
Agent and a Production Assistant in Vancouver.
Melissa moved to California in 1999. She is a Senior Game Designer
for Paragon Studios in Mountain View, California
and has helped develop the Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplay Game
(MMORPG) titles City of Heroes and City of Villains for PC. She is
known to the gaming community as "War Witch".
Melissa volunteers as a screenwriter and co-producer for the Christian film production company, Redletter Studios in InMotion Studios (FCC).
She has just published her first novel, Real Life.