2513 Jackson Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
USA
Melissa Grunow is the author of Realizing River City: A Memoir (Tumbleweed Books, 2016). Her writing has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, New Plains Review, Blue Lyra Review, Temenos, and Yemassee, among many others. She is also a live storyteller who competes in Detroit’s The Moth StorySLAM.
An award-winning writer, Melissa was a semi-finalist for the 2015 DISQUIET International Literary Lisbon Writing Program, a Pushcart Prize nominee for her essay “Home,” a two-time recipient of the Detroit Working Writers creative nonfiction prize, and is featured in Poets & Writers Directory of Writers.
She is a volunteer reader for Creative Nonfiction magazine, screening general submissions for publication and and editor for Grey Wolfe Publishing. She is a member of Detroit Working Writers, Michigan Writers, and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
Melissa holds a Bachelor of Science in English-creative writing and journalism from Central Michigan University, a Master of Arts in English from New Mexico State University, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with distinction from National University.
