Recent Publications

``Carne" New Madrid: Journal of Contemporary Literature
June 2010 (Nonfiction)

``Silk Flowers" Yalobusha Review
May 2010 (Nonfiction)

``Scrap Metal Baby" The View From Here
Summer 2010 (Graphic Fiction)

``To Nurse or Not to Nurse" Mothering Magazine
June 2010 (Essay)

``Postpartum Exile'' Mused: Bella Online Literary Review
(Fiction)

``Brazil Ten Ways'' Stone's Throw Magazine (Essay)

``Baby Naming 101'' Mothering Magazine (Essay)

``Wrestling the Octopus'' Literary Mama (Poetry)

``Guinea Pig'' New Plains Review | Video of Launch Party
(Fiction)

``Herstory'' Voices of Multiple Sclerosis: LaChance Publishing
(Nonfiction)

My Blog: Cake and Eat it Too Coming Soon

Bio

Melissa Scholes Young is a writer, a mother, a teacher, a pathological reader, and a professional juggler, in the metaphorical sense. Her work has been published in Mothering, Literary Mama, New Madrid, The View from Here, Mused, Yalobusha Review, New Plains Review, and other literary journals. She’s contributed to the anthologies A Cup of Comfort for Teachers and the Voices of series from LaChance Publishing. Melissa is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at Southern Illinois University and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.