Author Biography
MC Foley (melinda corazon foley) was born in Cebu, Philippines, raised in Virginia and resides in West Hollywood, CA. After winning a poetry slam competition in Oakland, CA - MC Foley paid rent with the winnings, and began touring as a performance poet, doing shows across the U.S. and overseas, including tours through the UK and Denmark, where Foley performed on Denmark's national radio station, Radio P3. Foley then wrote/acted lead in The Coconut Masquerade, a play written entirely in verse and produced by Bindlestiff Studio in San Francisco's SOMA district. Segments of Coconut, were featured in theaters around the country including the national Hip Hop Theater Festival and LA's Greenway Court Theater. Now in LA, MC Foley is an active novelist, studying screen and television writer and weekly e-columnist on The Business of Show Institute's e-newsletter, which reaches 40,000+ global subscribers - www.thebusinessofshowinstitute.com. Foley also coordinates the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) and Writers Guild of America, West's Showrunner Training Program, which provides training and resources to television writer-producers who are on the verge of running their own shows. The Ice Hotel arose from one awful Saturday in November when a phone call reminded Foley just how fleeting our time is on this earth. After that day, the voices of Rossa, Izzie and Poe, as well as the multitude of stories that weave into the novel, grew swiftly. Until they were too loud to be ignored.
