Mellisa Pascale (she/her) obtained her M.A. in Nonfiction Writing from Johns Hopkins University (2021), where she received the National Society of Collegiate Scholars Graduate Award. Her creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in The Common, Humans and Nature Press Digital, Dandelion Scribes, and other publications. Work from her ongoing travel writing project, Two Autumns, has received a Bronze Award from the Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing and been long-listed for the Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize. She is a reader at Soft Star Magazine.

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Mellisa received her M.Phil. in Medieval Studies (2024) and Postgraduate Diploma in Old Irish (2025) from Trinity College Dublin. An article from her M.Phil. thesis, a comparative study of Early Irish and Japanese nature poetry, was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Studia Celtica Fennica. 

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