June Melby is the author of My Family and Other Hazards (Holt, 2014), a memoir about her family’s retro 1950s miniature golf course in Wisconsin. It won the Midwest Connections award as well as being a New York Times Best Seller. A former standup comedian and spoken word artist, she has performed at literary festivals, national poetry slams, and on three European tours. She released three CDs of poetry with her original music accompanied by her band, June Melby and Her Future Enemies. June's work has been heard on Wisconsin Public Radio and seen in Ilanot Review, Muse/A Journal, Forklift Ohio, Fugue, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Versal, Utne Reader, Water~Stone, LA Weekly, and Kaffee.Satz.Lesen v.2, out of Hamburg, Germany.  She received an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and currently lives in a log cabin in the woods with her husband.