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Selected Essays

 

Spring 2012

“On Kaspar Hauser” [PDF]. Showcase category, NOOK More in Store promotion (February 19, 2012).

Summer 2011

"Puppy Love: My Dachshund, My Dear." O, the Oprah Magazine (July 2011).

Spring 2011

A Review of The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, eds. David Shields and Bradford Morrow, in which Melissa's essay "A Solemn Pleasure" appears. The Independent (U.K.) “Moving Essays Give a Voice to Death,” by Leslie McDowell (1 May 2011).

“STET? 2” A Public Space. “Etc.” section (24 January 2011).

Spring 2010

"Finding Ashton." O, The Oprah Magazine (May 2010).

“Decomposing Articles of Faith.” On Earth As It Is Narrative Prayer Project (April 2010).

Fall 2009

“A Woman’s Garden, Sown in Blood.” The Collagist 4 (November 2009).