Award-winning writer & educator.

Melissa McEver Huckabay is a poet whose work has appeared in SWWIM, Poetry South, The Minnesota Review, Phoebe Journal, SweetLit, Writers Resist, Thimble Literary Magazine and elsewhere. She was a past finalist for the Phoebe Journal Poetry Contest and her short fiction won the Spider’s Web Flash Fiction Prize from Spider Road Press. She has an MFA in poetry from Texas State University and teaches high-school English in Cypress, Texas, where she lives with her husband and son.

Melissa’s debut poetry collection, GIRL FILLING THE SKY, is forthcoming from Cider Press Review in February 2026. The book is available for pre-order here.