About Melissa Goodrich

Melissa Goodrich is the author of the collaborative collection The Classroom (2019), the story collection Daughters of Monsters (2016), and the poetry chapbook IF YOU WHAT (2012). She earned her BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University and her MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona. Her stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review Online, Passages North, PANK, and others, and her honors include the 2018 Passage's North Waasnode Fiction Prize, the 2016 Tucson Festival of Books Fiction Award, the 2013 Margaret Sterling Memorial Award, the 2013 AWP Intro Award, and the 2012 Academy of American Poets Prize. She lives in Tucson.