Melanie Falick is the publishing director of STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books, an imprint of Stewart, Tabori & Chang and Abrams Books. Among the many authors whose books she has edited are Creativebug artists Natalie Chanin, Heather Ross, Liesl Gibson, Gretchen Hirsch, and Kelly Wilkinson.  She is the former editor-in-chief of Interweave Knits magazine and the author of Weekend Knitting, America Knits (originally published as Knitting in America), Kids Knitting, and Knit: A Personal Handbook, and the co-author (with Kristin Nicholas) of Knitting for Baby.