Melissa Scholes Young

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 & Gravity anthology.[2] Her writing has appeared in 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 and was awarded the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellowship in 2015.[8]

She also published her debut novel, FLOOD, in 2017.[9] The novel received reviews from residents and press[10][11][12] in Hannibal, Missouri: Scholes Young's hometown, Mark Twain's hometown, and the setting and inspiration of the novel.[13] The novel also received attention from the literary community in Washington, D.C.[14][15] and brought rise to Scholes Young's creative writing career as an emerging author in the nation's capital.[16]

She currently teaches in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C. where she champions first-generation student issues.[17][18]

• http://www.melissascholesyoung.com
• Scholes Young, American University Faculty Profile