Melissa Christie is an Australian mum and singing teacher from Northern NSW Australia. She is also the founder of PCOS Pathways and author of The PCOS Journal. Melissa was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) in 2012 and has dedicated her time to understanding the condition and understanding her own experience of it.

Despite the healing journey Melissa embarked upon since her diagnosis, in 2015, whilst backpacking through India, Melissa miscarried her first child. With rates of miscarriage almost double for women with PCOS, Melissa set about healing her PCOS once and for all. What she found was a lack of resources and support and she decided that once she had gotten through her grief, she would contribute to changing that. About a year later with a newborn son, Melissa began creating The PCOS Journal.

The first edition was dated for 2019 and was met with 5 star reviews and resounding support from the PCOS community and the media. With PCOS Pathways growing, a podcast on the horizon and with Melissa doing more public speaking about PCOS, a new and improved second edition of the journal will be released in October 2019, this time an undated product. Nymboida, NSW

Stephanie Crane is a graphic designer and henna artist with a passion for meaningful projects. She is from rural NSW, and along with her passion for the bush and for fighting fires, she has found her purpose in art. In creating diaries and working with amazing women to enable empowering projects.

She is the designer for the Gratitude Diary, the PCOS Journal, the Daily DOSE Daybook and the Healing Journal. Stephanie spends her days with her family, working by the fire with her baby, in the little cottage she built in bushland NSW.