About Mellisa (she/her)

I obtained my M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University, where I received the National Society of Collegiate Scholars Graduate Award. My creative nonfiction has appeared in The Common Online, Humans and Nature Press Digital, The Loch Raven Review, and other publications. For my novel-in-progress, I received a Writing Fellowship from A Reason to Write. As warbling treefrog, I co-write The Sonnet Sisters on Substack with the dithyrambler. ​I also hold an M.Phil. in Medieval Studies, and my scholarly work has appeared in Studia Celtica Fennica.

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Recently published: 'Devils you've never known' (sonnet)

Read this on The Sonnet Sisters

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Recently published: 'Room to Rent' (creative nonfiction) in Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature (2026)

Read 'Room to Rent'​

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Go to my Writing page