Melissa Scholes Young

Melissa Scholes Young is an award-winning author from Hannibal, Missouri. Her writing has appeared in the “Atlantic,” “Washington Post,” “Huffington Post,” “Narrative,” “Ploughshares,” and “Poets & Writers.” She’s a Contributing Editor for “Fiction Writers Review” and Editor of “Grace in Darkness: D.C. Women Writers.” She’s an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C. “Flood,” her first novel, was published in May 2018 by Center Street.