Melissa Duge Spiers is an award-winning essayist, screenwriter, and advocate for topics of religious and narcissistic abuse, utilizing her online platforms (
TikTok and
Instagram, known as “The Glory Whole”). Her memoir
Holy Disobedience: Sex, Sin, and Secrets in the Biggest Church No One Knows won the 2021 Book Pipeline Unpublished Nonfiction Manuscript prize, with excerpts featured in The Huffington Post. Melissa’s writing appears in magazines nationwide, and she’s a contributor to
Take the Fruit: An Anthology of Religious Trauma. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Barnard College at Columbia University and is based in California.
