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=Melissa Scholes Young=

Basic Information
Melissa Scholes Young (born 1975) is an American writer.

Life
Melissa Scholes Young was born in Hannibal, Missouri. She graduated from Monmouth College with a BA in History, from Stetson University with an MA in Education, and from Southern Illinois University with an MFA in Creative Writing. She spent ten years teaching high school English and a few more teaching middle school at the American School in Brasilia, Brazil.

Scholes Young is a Contributing Editor for Fiction Writers Review and Editor of the Grace & Gravityanthology. Her writing has appeared in the American Fiction, The Atlantic , Narrative, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poets & Writers. , The Washington Independent Review of Books, and The Washington Post, Scholes Young attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2014, was awarded a Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellowship in 2015. She also published her debut novel, FLOOD, in 2017.

She currently teaches in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C.