Melissa Ginsburg

Official Panelist

2024 Participant · Poetry · South Arts Fellow

Melissa Ginsburg
Melissa Ginsburg

Melissa is the author of the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, the poetry collections Doll Apollo (winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award) and Dear Weather Ghost, and three poetry chapbooks, Arbor, Double Blind, and Apollo. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Image, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. Originally from Houston, Texas, Melissa studied poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Mississippi, and serves as Associate Editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Book Title(s)

  • Doll Apollo: Poems

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