Coco Mellors is a British-born novelist best known for Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Blue Sisters. Born in London in 1989, she spent parts of her childhood in London and Los Angeles before moving to New York as a teenager, and later earned an MFA in fiction from New York University. Her writing often explores complicated relationships, sisterhood, addiction, grief, womanhood, and the messy ways people cope with loss and change. Mellors has lived in both New York and Los Angeles, and Blue Sisters, her second novel, became a New York Times bestseller and Read with Jenna selection.