Melissa Scholes Young
Melissa Scholes Young | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Southern Illinois University (MFA), Stetson University (MA), and Monmouth College (BA) |
Occupation | Author, Professor |
Employer | American University |
Known for | Creative Writing |
Notable work | Flood, “A Soft Place to Rest,” American Fiction vol. 15 |
Awards | Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellowship, 2015 |
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.[citation needed] She is currently an associate professor in Literature at American University.
Career[]
Scholes Young’s second novel, THE HIVE,[1] is forthcoming in 2021 from Turner Publishing.[2] THE HIVE has been optioned by Sony Entertainment.[3]
Scholes Young edited two volumes of new work by women writers, Grace in Darkness (2018)[4] and Furious Gravity (2020),[5] which was featured on the Kojo Nnamdi Show,[6] Washington Independent Review of Books,[7][8] Medium,[9] and at Politics & Prose Bookstore[10]
Scholes Young is a Contributing Editor for Fiction Writers Review[11] and Editor of the Grace & Gravity anthology.[12] Her writing has appeared in American Fiction,[13] The Atlantic,[14] Literary Hub,[15] Ms. Magazine,[16] Narrative, ,[17] Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poets & Writers,[18] The Washington Independent Review of Books,[19] and The Washington Post.[20]
Scholes Young attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2014 and was awarded the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellowship in 2015.[21]
She also published her debut novel, FLOOD, in 2017.[22] The novel received reviews from residents and press[23][24][25] in Hannibal, Missouri: Scholes Young's hometown, Mark Twain's hometown, and the setting and inspiration of the novel.[26] The novel also received attention from the literary community in Washington, D.C.[27][28] and brought rise to Scholes Young's creative writing career as an emerging author in the nation's capital.[29]
Scholes Young shares a hometown with Mark Twain and has written fiction[30][31][32] that reimagines Tom and Huck’s famous friendship as female and scholarship[33] concerned with the character portrayal of Becky Thatcher.[34][35]
She currently teaches in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C. where she champions first-generation student issues.[36][37]
References[]
- ^ Featured on Bookshop.org
- ^ Turner Publishing
- ^ Dreamscape Media Inks Exclusive Worldwide Audio Partnership with Turner Publishing Company
- ^ Grace in Darkness
- ^ Furious Gravity
- ^ D.C.’s Literary Women Are The Force Behind “Furious Gravity", The Kojo Nnamdi Show
- ^ “Stretching the Table,” Washington Independent Review of Books
- ^ “A Socially Distanced Debut,” Washington Independent Review of Books
- ^ “In Solitude with Bright Colors”: A DC Artist’s Journey to Self-Expression and Community Painter Marily Mojica provides the cover for the new edition of a local literary collection by women, Medium
- ^ “Furious Gravity: Grace & Gravity Volume IX" Launch – a conversation with Melissa Scholes Young, Mary Kay Zuravleff and Tara Campbell” Politics & Prose Bookstore
- ^ Melissa Scholes Young in Fiction Writers Review.
- ^ Scholes Young, Melissa, “Oxygen in Use,” Abundant Grace, Paycock Press, 2016.
- ^ Scholes Young, Melissa, “A Soft Place to Rest,” American Fiction vol. 15, 2016.
- ^ Scholes Young, Melissa, All Stories by Melissa Scholes Young, The Atlantic Retrieved on 9 June 2017.
- ^ “On the Extravagance of Mark Twain’s Family Dishes: Melissa Scholes Young on Humble Beginnings, Thanksgiving, and Leisure Time”
- ^ ‘The Ms. Must-Read: “What Kind of America Will This Be?”’
- ^ “The Politics of Dialect” by Melissa Scholes Young, Origins Literary Journal
- ^ Scholes Young, Melissa, A Residency of One’s Own Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 2016. Retrieved on 9 June 2017.
- ^ Melissa Scholes Young in Washington Independent Review of Books.
- ^ Scholes Young, Melissa, “Teachers Teaching Their Own: The Frederick Douglass House”, The Washington Post, 19 August 2016. Retrieved on 9 June 2017.
- ^ Middlebury Breadloaf Writers' Conferences, 2015 Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellows.
- ^ Flood, Center Street, Hachette Book Group, 2017, ISBN 978-1-4789-7078-1.
- ^ Naughton, Travis, "Friends, Family, Floods", Bocojo.com, 2017.
- ^ "‘Flood’ marks first novel for Hannibal native", Hannibal Courier-Post, Jun 20, 2017.
- ^ Szatala, Ashley, "Hannibal native publishes debut novel, draws inspiration from Twain" Herald-Whig, June 24, 2017.
- ^ Ohanesian, Aline, "Holding Difficult Truths: An Interview with Melissa Scholes Young", Fiction Writers Review, June 26, 2017.
- ^ "Meet Melissa Scholes Young" Washington Independent Review of Books, July 6, 2017.
- ^ Horne, Chelsea, "Seeing Your Hometown Through the Fresh Eyes of Fiction", Literary Hub, June 30, 2017.
- ^ Handscombe, Claire, "5 D.C. authors you should know (and their latest books)", DC Refined, May 18, 2017.
- ^ “MARK TWAIN FORUM REVIEWS – FLOOD: A NOVEL BY MELISSA SCHOLES YOUNG” by Kevin Mac Donnell
- ^ “AUTHOR OF AWARD-WINNING NOVEL “FLOOD” CONTINUES THE FALL TROUBLE BEGINS SERIES” by Joe Lemak
- ^ EXCERPT: FLOOD BY MELISSA SCHOLES YOUNG PUBLISHED EXCLUSIVELY WITH JMWW
- ^ Melissa Scholes Young (literature) published an article, "I Can't Be Your Becky: The Risk of Giving Readers What They Want," in the Mark Twain Journal. The journal was founded in 1936 and is one of the oldest American journals dedicated to a single author. Jan. 2020
- ^ The Center for Mark Twain Studies is honored to announce the 2019 Class of Quarry Farm Fellows: Melissa Scholes Young
- ^ “THE CRANE HOUSE SPEAKS (A QUARRY FARM TESTIMONIAL)” by Melissa Scholes Young
- ^ Housman, Patty, "First-Gen Students Find a Home at AU," American University, College News, October 25, 2016.
- ^ "First-gen professors reach out to first-gen students," Education Advisory Board, May 11, 2016.
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