M V Melcer is a fiction writer and a filmmaker, with primary interest in science fiction and sometimes-accurate ponderings about the future. Born in Poland, MV has lived in the USA, the Netherlands and Belgium before settling in the United Kingdom. She inherited her passion for space and science-fiction from her father, who almost lost his life trying to replicate the feats of Sputnik and Gagarin using home-made rockets (he lost his hand, but it could have ended much worse). MV's dream of space-flight remained confined to the atmosphere, as she obtained a recreational pilot's licence (much safer!) To balance things out, she's also an avid scuba diver. Combining her first passion for science and literature, M V if following her MA in literature with a degree in astronomy and planetary sciences she's currently pursuing. M V wrote and directed several short films, which were successful at the festival circuits, screening in Europe, the USA, and Japan. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSurus, Daily Science Fiction, Nature Futures, and others. She lives south of London with her husband and Earl Grey, a not-very-smart tabby cat.