Here are some places Melissa’s creative writing, personal essays, and interviews have appeared.
POETRY
Phoebe: “Young Woman”
SWWIM: “If You Wondered About the Astronaut Who Never Went to Space”
Sweet: A Literary Confection: “Elegy for a Promise Ring”
Thimble Literary Magazine: “The Worried Woman Odes” (Note: this poem was nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Poetry South (print only): “Pink Evening Primrose, or Buttercup as My Mom Called It”
Chaos Dive Reunion, anthology from Mutabilis Press (print only): “Unspoken,” “Guidance,” “My Son Talks About Minecraft”
Reformatting the Pain Scale, anthology from Olney Magazine (print only): “Obituary” and “On the Pain Scale, I am a 6”
Remembered Arts Journal (now folded): “Mother”
FICTION
Defunkt: “The Playground” (page 18) Note: This story won the Spider’s Web Flash Fiction Prize from Spider Road Press.
ESSAYS/INTERVIEWS