Melanie was born and grew up in the Detroit area and received her BA in visual art from Albion college and went on to receive her BFA from the Oregon College of Art and Craft majoring in Textiles. After graduating in 1999, she impulsively moved to Colorado and now lives in the Pikes Peak region and shares her life with her printmaker husband Nikos, and their children, Onora and Ivy. She continued her education by learning the art of natural dyes from various instructors such as Donna Brown, Catherine Ellis, and Yoshiko Wada. She is the owner and proprietor of Melanie Audet Limited Editions and Twig and Berry Dyes. Her love for textiles is more of a compulsion and she loves to share this passion with others.