Melissa Ginsburg is the author of two novels, two poetry collections, and three poetry chapbooks. She is the winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry award and was named the Inaugural South Arts Mississippi State Fellow for Literary Arts. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker and Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, and in The New Yorker, Image, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. The Director of Graduate Creative Writing Programs and an associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi, she lives in Oxford.
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Books by Melissa Ginsburg
From acclaimed poet and novelist Melissa Ginsburg, an observant, unflinching collection examining the interconnected systems between the domestic and natural worlds.
“Again and again // you ocean the marsh, lock the hurricane in the bathtub,” Melissa Ginsburg writes in her raw, wise third collection. “You walk straight into the spider’s web // and close its door behind you.”