Melissa Broder is an American author, essayist, and poet. Her notable works include the novels The Pisces (Penguin Random House, 2018), Milk Fed (Simon and Schuster, 2021), and Death Valley (Scribner, 2023). She has also published the poetry collection Last Sext (Tin House, 2016) and the essay collection So Sad Today (Grand Central, 2016), which is based on her popular Twitter feed of the same name.

Broder's work has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, Vice, Vogue Italia, and New York magazine's The Cut. Her books have been translated into over ten languages. Melissa Broder resides in Los Angeles.