Mellisa Pascale's creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in The Common, Paperbark, Humans and Nature Press Digital, Hometown Poems, and other publications. She holds an M.A. in Nonfiction Writing from Johns Hopkins University and an M.Phil. in Medieval Studies from Trinity College Dublin. While at JHU, she was a recipient of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars Graduate Award. Her writing has been long-listed for the Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize. She is from southeastern Pennsylvania.