Mellisa Pascale is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in The Common, Paperbark, Humans and Nature Press Digital, Dandelion Scribes, and other publications. She holds an M.A. in Nonfiction Writing from Johns Hopkins University (2021), where she was the recipient of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars Graduate Award. She is a reader at Soft Star Magazine.

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

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