Melody Golding

Melody is an author, photographer and artist living in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History archives center acquired her solo documentary exhibit; Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember and her documentary photography and oral history project on Panther Tract: Wild Boar Hunting in the Mississippi Delta. Her photographs are on display in the congressional hearing room at the Department of Homeland Security and have been featured in solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and at numerous universities, colleges and museums.

Melody's four books published by the University Press of Mississippi are; Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember, Panther Tract: Wild Boar Hunting in the Mississippi Delta, Life Between the Levees: America's Riverboat Pilots and Hometown Mississippi. Her photography has also been published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, Journal of Women's Studies. Her work has been featured in and published by the Royal Photographic Society Awards Journal, London England. Melody was honored by the MS Humanities Council in receiving the Chair's Award for Special Achievements in the Humanities which recognizes an individual that has made special contributions to the public humanities in her body of work about hurricane Katrina and she was awarded the Herman T. Pott award for her book "Life Between the Levees, America's Riverboat Pilots" by the St. Louis Mercantile Library, St. Louis, Missouri.

Her Katrina photos are the subject of a solo exhibition at the Two Museums by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in 2025 in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the storms impact on Mississippi.

Melody received her BFA from Mississippi State University.