Melinda Hsu graduated from
Harvard College and then earned a
MFA in Film from
Columbia University. Prior to her work as a staff writer on
Still Life (a one-hour drama for the FOX network), she worked as a story analyst for producers, agents, and writers nationwide. She began working in television as a writer for the first season of
Medium in 2005. She wrote the episodes "Jump Start" and "Being Mrs. O'Leary's Cow". She became a story editor for the second season later in 2005 and wrote the episode "Dead Aim". She left the series at the end of the second season in 2006 having written three episodes. She became an executive story editor for the series
Vanished in 2006 and wrote the episode "The New World".
Vanished was canceled after thirteen episodes. Hsu moved on to become an executive story editor and writer for the series ''
Women's Murder Club'' in 2007. She co-wrote the story and the teleplay for the episode "The Past Comes Back to Haunt You" (story with Sherry Carnes, teleplay with Robert Nathan) and wrote the episode "And the Truth Will (Sometimes) Set You Free". The series was cancelled after the first season. Following her work on the animated series
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Hsu was hired as a co-producer and writer for the
fifth season of
Lost in 2009. She co-wrote the episodes "
The Little Prince" (with producer
Brian K. Vaughn) and "
Some Like It Hoth" (with
Greggory Nations). The writing staff was nominated for the
Writers Guild of America Award for best drama series at the
February 2010 ceremony for their work on the fifth season. She co-wrote the episodes "
The Substitute" (with executive producer
Elizabeth Sarnoff) and "
Ab Aeterno" (with Nations). After writing for
Falling Skies and
Touch as a Supervising Producer, she joined the writing staff of
The Vampire Diaries. She was an Executive Producer on
The Vampire Diaries and Executive Producer on
The Gifted as well as the showrunner of
Nancy Drew and co-creator and showrunner of
Tom Swift, both on the CW. ==References==