About

Abby Melbye is a Minnesota-based writer. She holds an MFA in Screenwriting from Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema (2025) and a BA in Spanish from Minnesota State University, Moorhead (2019).

She grew up in Minnesota, spent her 20s in North Dakota, Wyoming, and New York, with a brief stint in Poland and a briefer stint in Montana, before returning home in early 2026.

Her scripts have placed at the Austin Film Festival as a Semifinalist (2025) and a Second Rounder (2026). By day, she works as the Community Outreach Manager at a Regional Arts Council in southern Minnesota.

My Work

My work explores the lives of ordinary people in overlooked places, for that is where we find the truth of the human experience. More often than not, my stories focus on women, intergenerational friendship, and the queer experience.