Mel King is a trans and queer writer of primarily narrative nonfiction.

His work is forthcoming in Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror, an anthology from The Feminist Press (2025), and has appeared in Catapult, The Cortland Review, North American Review, Blueline, Gravel, EMERGE: A Lambda Literary Fellows Anthology, Wilde Magazine, T(OUR) Literary, and Mason’s Road.

His writing has been supported by fellowships from The Truman Capote Foundation (2014-2016, fiction), Lambda Literary (2015, nonfiction), The Yiddish Book Center (2018, nonfiction). He had his first residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2024.

He is currently working on a memoir, tentatively titled IT’S ALL OVER NOW, and a hybrid nonfiction manuscript about ghosts and The Great Sacandaga Lake.He grew up in Albany, New York and received his undergraduate degree in gender/queer theory and grassroots organizing from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He graduated from the Fiction MFA program at Rutgers-Newark in 2016.

Mel works at Equality Federation, as VP of Operations, building the movement for LGBTQ+ liberation from state to state across the country. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Audrie.