Melody was included in a New York Times feature in October 2018. The newspaper asked 12 authors to write about the libraries they love, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx wrote about her Port Townsend Carnegie Library and what brought her into librarianship. 

Melody began work at the Port Townsend, Washington, library in 2015. She was previously the manager of the Silverdale branch of Kitsap Regional Library, and had also served as chair of the Kitsap County Arts Board.