Melissa Michal is of Seneca, Welsh, and English descent. She is a fiction writer, essayist, photographer, and a literature and creative writing professor. She has her MFA from Chatham University, MA from Pennsylvania State University, and her PhD in Literature from Arizona State University, where she focused on education and representation of Indigenous histories and literatures in curriculum. She received an NEH summer fellowship and has been grateful to read at the National American Indian Museum in DC and Amerind Museum in Dragoon, AZ. Melissa has work appearing in The Florida Review, Arkana, Yellow Medicine Review, and the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program’s Narrative Witnessing project. Her short story collection, Living Along the Borderlines (2019), out with the Feminist Press, was a finalist for the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. Her first novel, Along the Hills, and non-fiction lyric essay collection, Broken Blood, are both finished. She is now at work on a new dystopian novel.
Website: www.melissamichalwriter.net
Twitter: @melissamichal16