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Melissa Scholes Young

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Born
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSouthern Illinois University (MFA), Stetson University (MA), and Monmouth College (BA)
OccupationProfessor
EmployerAmerican University
Known forCreative Writing
Notable workFlood, “A Soft Place to Rest,” American Fiction vol. 15
AwardsBread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellowship, 2015

Basic Information

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Melissa Scholes Young (born 1975) is an American writer.

Life

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Melissa Scholes Young was born in Hannibal, Missouri. She graduated from Monmouth College with a BA in History, from Stetson University with an MA in Education, and from Southern Illinois University with an MFA in Creative Writing. She spent ten years teaching high school English and a few more teaching middle school at the American School in Brasilia, Brazil.


Scholes Young is a Contributing Editor for Fiction Writers Review[1] and Editor of the Grace & Gravityanthology[2]. Her writing has appeared in the American Fiction[3], The Atlantic[4], Narrative, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poets & Writers.[5], The Washington Independent Review of Books,[6] and The Washington Post,[7] Scholes Young attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2014, was awarded a Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellowship in 2015. She also published her debut novel, FLOOD[8], in 2017.


She currently teaches in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C.


References

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  1. ^ Melissa Scholes Young in Fiction Writers Review
  2. ^ Scholes Young, Melissa. “Oxygen in Use,” Abundant Grace, Paycock Press, 2016.
  3. ^ Scholes Young, Melissa. “A Soft Place to Rest,” American Fiction vol. 15, 2016
  4. ^ Scholes Young, Melissa. All Stories by Melissa Scholes Young, The Atlantic, Retrieved on 9 June 2017.
  5. ^ Scholes Young, Melissa. A Residency of One’s Own , Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 2016. Retrieved on 9 June 2017.
  6. ^ Melissa Scholes Young in Washington Independent Review of Books.
  7. ^ Scholes Young, Melissa, “Teachers Teaching Their Own: The Frederick Douglass House”, The Washington Post, 19 August 2016. Retrieved on 9 June 2017.
  8. ^ Flood, Center Street, Hachette Book Group, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-4789-7078-1


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Author’s website: http://melissascholesyoung.com/index.html