Melody Razak is a British Iranian writer from London, with an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck. She has had short stories published in the Mechanics Institute Review, the Bath Short Story Anthology and the Brick Lane Short Story Prize. Previous to writing, she owned treacle&co, a cafe in Brighton and more recently worked in the kitchens of Honey and Co in London as a pastry chef.
Razak spent an extraordinary year researching and traveling through India while writing Moth. The food she ate, the temples she visited, the people she spoke to and the long train journeys from one end of the country to the other, all have a place in the pages of the novel.
Moth is her debut novel and she currently lives in Brighton.
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