Melissa Chipman is a freelance writer and editor whose previous work can be seen in the now-defunct Insider Louisville (Louisville Future), the now-defunct The Paper, and the still-funct LEO and Churchill Downs Magazine, among other places. She's a native New Englander who'd spent most of her adult life in New Orleans until she moved to the Highlands of Louisville in 2006 where she still resides with her husband and a cat named Josephine. You can follow her on Twitter @loueyville.
