Melissa Ginsburg
Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, the poetry collections Runoff (forthcoming in 2026 from Milkweed Editions), Doll Apollo, and Dear Weather Ghost, and three poetry chapbooks, Arbor, Double Blind, and Apollo. She is winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters poetry award and has been named the South Arts 2024 Mississippi State Fellow for Literary Arts. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Image, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. She is director of graduate creative writing programs at the University of Mississippi.

Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, the poetry collections Runoff (forthcoming in 2026 from Milkweed Editions), Doll Apollo, and Dear Weather Ghost, and three poetry chapbooks, Arbor, Double Blind, and Apollo. She is winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters poetry award and has been named the South Arts 2024 Mississippi State Fellow for Literary Arts. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Image, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. She is director of graduate creative writing programs at the University of Mississippi.