Melissa Bank is an American author of the best-selling linked collections The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot. Bank also wrote the comic story collection The Wonder Spot, in which she traced a woman’s efforts to find her place in the world, and her writings appeared in Ploughshares and Zoetrope among other publications. She also taught in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. Bank died at the age of sixty-one on August 2, 2022.