About Me


Melissa Reddish is the author of three full-length books: My Father is an Angry Storm Cloud (Tailwinds Press, 2015), Girl & Flame (Conium Press, 2016), and The Lives We’ve Yet to Live (Tailwinds Press, 2022). Her short stories, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in literary journals ranging from Tampa Review to Grist. She has received residencies at Soaring Gardens and the Rensing Center. She teaches at a small, rural community college on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.