Melanie Ritzenthaler

Melanie Ritzenthaler is a PhD candidate in fiction at Ohio University. Her short stories have appeared in Ninth Letter, West Branch, Colorado Review, and Cimarron Review, among other publications. She holds a MFA from McNeese State University.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Short Stories 2020*

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