Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels
The Hive and
Flood and editor of
Grace in Darkness and
Furious Gravity, two anthologies by women writers. Her work has appeared in the
Atlantic, Ms., Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, Literary Hub, and
Believer Magazine. She has been the recipient of the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship, the Center for Mark Twain Studies' Quarry Farm Fellowship, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. Born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, she is an associate professor in Literature at American University. Learn more at
thehivenovel.com and find her on Twitter
@mscholesyoung 