Mélanie Ritchot is a journalist and editor with Métis-settler ancestry. She grew up on Treaty 1 Territory (Manitoba) and worked for the Winnipeg Free Press before relocating to Iqaluit, Nunavut where she reported on stories across the eastern Arctic for Nunatsiaq News.

She is now based on Vancouver Island and has been writing for publications like the Globe and Mail and Stir Magazine, with a focus on art and culture topics. She is also the Commissioning Editor of art and design magazine BLOCK.

Her research Indigenous art book publishing in Canada: Conversations & considerations was published in 2023, and she now works with books in a dual editing and marketing role at Figure 1 Publishing.

She recently edited an Elder-led history of the Yukon Association of Non-Status Indians and co-edited Curve! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast.