Recent Publications

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

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

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

``My Problem'' MO: Writings from the River
Spring 2009 (Poetry)

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

``Guinea Pig'' New Plains Review
Spring 2009 (Fiction)

``Sex Education: Sesame Street Style'' Family Forum Magazine
February 2009 (Essay)

``Herstory'' Voices of Multiple Sclerosis: LaChance Publishing forthcoming book in Fall 2009

My Blog: Cake and Eat it Too Coming Soon

Bio

Melissa Scholes Young’s work has been published in the nationally syndicated Front Porch Magazine, New Plains Review, Stone's Throw Magazine, Literary Mama and in Mothering.  She has been anthologized in the book Cup of Comfort for Teachers.  She won Front Porch Magazine’s Best New Nonfiction Author Contest. She has also written feature articles and humor columns for Family Forum and Capital Culture. In addition to her writing, Melissa has taught English and Creative Writing at all levels from middle school to high school, from community college to university and finally, at an international school in Brazil.  She is currently working towards an MFA degree in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University.