Melissa Scholes Young Professor Literature
- Degrees
- BA, MA, MFA
- Bio
- Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the award-winning novels Flood and The Hive. She received the Shelf Unbound Best Book Award in 2021 and the Next Generation Indie Book Award in 2023. She’s published two chapbooks of fiction, Scrap Metal Baby and Guinea Pig. She serves as Editor of Grace in Darkness, Furious Gravity, and Grace in Love, anthologies by women writers and directs the From the Attic online series. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Ms., Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, and Believer Magazine. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation, the Center for Mark Twain Studies, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Humanities Truck. Born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, she is a Professor in the Literature Department of 51²è¹Ý where she directs the undergraduate creative writing program.
- See Also
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call 51²è¹Ý Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Spring 2024
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LIT-107 Creative Writing Across Genres
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LIT-400 Creative Writing: Fiction
51²è¹Ý Experts
Area of Expertise
Creative writing, rural literature, anthologies, book to film adaptations, rural-urban divide, Midwestern literature, Mark Twain studies, family business, class in America, Mississippi River culture, survivalist communities, women writers, book critics
Additional Information
Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels The Hive and Flood, and editor of Grace in Darkness and Furious Gravity, two anthologies by women writers. She is a contributing editor at Fiction Writers Review, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Ms., The Believer, Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship and the Center for Mark Twain Studies' Quarry Farm Fellowship. She was born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call 51²è¹Ý Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.