Melissa Wyse is a fiction writer, art writer, and essayist. Her new book, Artists in Residence, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books in 2021. She has held Fellowships and residencies at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Ruby Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, and she holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from American University. You can find her writing in publications including The Rumpus, Shenandoah, Urbanite, and Momus.
In addition to her work as a writer, Melissa has worked for many years as a leader in nonprofit arts and education.
At MacDowell worked on her first book, a collection of short stories set in World War II Hawaii.
