Mel Reeve

I’m an award-winning writer and archivist. I write about identity, history, and the quiet inner lives that often go unrecorded, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ stories, folklore, and the ways the past shapes who we become.

My short fiction has won the Glasgow Women’s Library Bold Types Prize (2020) and the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Grand Jury Prize (2024), and been shortlisted for the Creative Future Writer’s Award, the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, and the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Words of the Wild competition.

My work has been published by 404 Ink, Knight Errant Press, Leith Press, The Skinny, Autostraddle, and DIVA, among others, and I’m a columnist for Mslexia.

I’m also the founder of the Bi History project, celebrating and preserving bisexual+ history.