Melissa Yi

Melissa Yi could slice your throat and sew it back up again. Legally. Because she’s an emergency doctor.

In her spare minutes, Melissa writes fiction! She writes in several genres: crime, speculative fiction, fantasy, romance and YA. She’s a winner of the Writers of the Future Award.

She is the creator of the two Hope Sze medical crime series: the first, straight-forward thrillers; the second based on the seven deadly sins. Ellery Queen praised the series for its “nitty-gritty” description and Publishers Weekly for its “darker themes … entertaining and insightful.” Kirkus considers Hope Sze a “modern heroine,” the CBC calls her a “must-read,” and The Globe and Mail praises her as a “standout,” having written a best Canadian suspense novel.

Melissa’s short fiction and poetry has been short-listed for many different genre awards. Several of her mystery stories have been finalists for the CWC Best Short Story Award. In 2023, her story, “My Two-Legs” (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2022) won the Derringer Award for Best Short Story.

But that’s not all! Because all ER doctors have some form of ADHD (joking sort of), Melissa also writes romance and YA. Her YA mystery, The Red Rock Killer, was a finalist for the CWC Best Juvenile/ YA Book Award and for the Killer Nashville Readers Choice Award.

Under the name Melissa Yuan-Innes, she writes the Unfeeling Doctor memoir series. For a listing of Melissa’s books, visit her author page on Amazon.ca