Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the poetry collections Runoff (forthcoming in 2026 from Milkweed Editions), Doll Apollo, and Dear Weather Ghost, the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, and three poetry chapbooks, Arbor, Double Blind, and Apollo. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Image, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. Originally from Houston, Texas, Melissa studied poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is Director of Graduate Creative Writing Programs and Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.