Melodee Mattson was born and raised in Billings, Montana. She was homeschooled K-12, and her high school education was profoundly impacted by studying Great Books for four years with Fritz Hinrichs of Escondido Tutorial Service, and Rhetoric, Latin, and Logic from Wesley Callihan of Schola Classical Tutorials. These men fueled her love of learning and her desire to pursue a course of study in literature.

In 2005 Melodee graduated summa cum laude from Montana State University-Billings with a bachelor's degree in English and a minor in music. She was awarded a 2006 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation graduate scholarship, which enabled her to attend the University of Aberdeen in northeast Scotland. There she studied under world-renowned experts in the fields of Victorian literature, Scottish literature, the works of Sir Walter Scott, and the novels of Jane Austen. She obtained her Master of Letters in English Literary Studies in November 2007, with a thesis on the early Scottish fiction of J.M. Barrie. As a result of her thesis, she has written an introduction for a new edition of Barrie's The Little Minister, published by Kennedy & Boyd.

Melodee's teaching experience includes many years of teaching Latin to homeschooled students in Billings. She has also tutored individual students in Latin, history, writing, and science. She taught choir and drama at Covenant Academy, a small classical Christian school, during the 2005/2006 school year. In addition, she has also developed and taught several week-long summer drama camps. She works to promote science education in her job at Home Science Tools.

Her interests, besides literature, include writing, singing, playing the violin and the piano, baseball, World War II history, drama, science, and Christian missions. Melodee is an active member of her local church.