Melissa Ferrone's work has been published in Guernica, Fourth Genre, The Colorado Review, The Cimarron Review, The Normal School, The Pinch, Brevity, The Collagist, The Fourth River, and The Baltimore Review, among others. She has had two essays nominated for the Pushcart Prize: "I Was Raped/I Was Battered" at Guernica, and "Blood and Stars" at the Colorado Review. Her work was listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2015 and Best American Essays 2019. She was a nonfiction contributor to the 2015 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She earned her MFA from West Virginia University.
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