Melissa Scholes Young

Melissa Scholes Young (born 1975) is an American writer.

Melissa Scholes Young
Melissa Scholes Young at the 2018 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Born
Hannibal, Missouri
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSouthern Illinois University (MFA), Stetson University (MA), and Monmouth College (BA)
OccupationAuthor, Professor
EmployerAmerican University
Known forCreative Writing
Notable work
Flood, “A Soft Place to Rest,” American Fiction vol. 15
AwardsBread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellowship, 2015

Life

Melissa Scholes Young was born in Hannibal, Missouri. She graduated from Monmouth College with a BA in History, from Stetson University with an MA in Education, and from Southern Illinois University with an MFA in Creative Writing. She is currently an associate professor in Literature at American University.

Career

Scholes Young’s second novel, The Hive,[1] is forthcoming in 2021 from Turner Publishing.[2] The novel has been optioned by Sony Entertainment.[3]

Scholes Young edited two volumes of new work by women writers, Grace in Darkness (2018)[4] and Furious Gravity (2020),[5] which was featured on the Kojo Nnamdi Show,[6] Washington Independent Review of Books,[7][8] Medium,[9] and at Politics & Prose Bookstore[10]

Scholes Young is a Contributing Editor for Fiction Writers Review[11] and Editor of the Grace & Gravity anthology.[12] Her writing has appeared in American Fiction,[13] The Atlantic,[14] Literary Hub,[15] Ms. Magazine,[16] Narrative, Origins Literary Magazine,[17] Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poets & Writers,[18] The Washington Independent Review of Books,[19] and The Washington Post.[20]

Scholes Young attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2014 and was awarded the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellowship in 2015.[21]

She also published her debut novel, Flood, in 2017.[22] The novel received reviews from residents and press[23][24][25] in Hannibal, Missouri: Scholes Young's hometown, Mark Twain's hometown, and the setting and inspiration of the novel.[26] The novel also received attention from the literary community in Washington, D.C.[27][28] and brought rise to Scholes Young's creative writing career as an emerging author in the nation's capital.[29]

Scholes Young shares a hometown with Mark Twain and has written fiction[30][31][32] that reimagines Tom and Huck’s famous friendship as female and scholarship[33] concerned with the character portrayal of Becky Thatcher.[34][35]

She currently teaches in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C. where she champions first-generation student issues.[36][37]

References
  1. Featured on Bookshop.org
  2. Turner Publishing
  3. Dreamscape Media Inks Exclusive Worldwide Audio Partnership with Turner Publishing Company
  4. Grace in Darkness
  5. Furious Gravity
  6. D.C.’s Literary Women Are The Force Behind “Furious Gravity", The Kojo Nnamdi Show
  7. “Stretching the Table,” Washington Independent Review of Books
  8. “A Socially Distanced Debut,” Washington Independent Review of Books
  9. “In Solitude with Bright Colors”: A DC Artist’s Journey to Self-Expression and Community Painter Marily Mojica provides the cover for the new edition of a local literary collection by women, Medium
  10. “Furious Gravity: Grace & Gravity Volume IX" Launch – a conversation with Melissa Scholes Young, Mary Kay Zuravleff and Tara Campbell” Politics & Prose Bookstore
  11. Melissa Scholes Young in Fiction Writers Review.
  12. Scholes Young, Melissa, “Oxygen in Use,” Abundant Grace, Paycock Press, 2016.
  13. Scholes Young, Melissa, “A Soft Place to Rest,” American Fiction vol. 15, 2016.
  14. Scholes Young, Melissa, All Stories by Melissa Scholes Young, The Atlantic Retrieved on 9 June 2017.
  15. “On the Extravagance of Mark Twain’s Family Dishes: Melissa Scholes Young on Humble Beginnings, Thanksgiving, and Leisure Time”
  16. ‘The Ms. Must-Read: “What Kind of America Will This Be?”’
  17. “The Politics of Dialect” by Melissa Scholes Young, Origins Literary Journal
  18. Scholes Young, Melissa, A Residency of One’s Own Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 2016. Retrieved on 9 June 2017.
  19. Melissa Scholes Young in Washington Independent Review of Books.
  20. Scholes Young, Melissa, “Teachers Teaching Their Own: The Frederick Douglass House”, The Washington Post, 19 August 2016. Retrieved on 9 June 2017.
  21. Middlebury Breadloaf Writers' Conferences, 2015 Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellows.
  22. Flood, Center Street, Hachette Book Group, 2017, ISBN 978-1-4789-7078-1.
  23. Naughton, Travis, "Friends, Family, Floods", Bocojo.com, 2017.
  24. "‘Flood’ marks first novel for Hannibal native", Hannibal Courier-Post, Jun 20, 2017.
  25. Szatala, Ashley, "Hannibal native publishes debut novel, draws inspiration from Twain" Herald-Whig, June 24, 2017.
  26. Ohanesian, Aline, "Holding Difficult Truths: An Interview with Melissa Scholes Young", Fiction Writers Review, June 26, 2017.
  27. "Meet Melissa Scholes Young" Washington Independent Review of Books, July 6, 2017.
  28. Horne, Chelsea, "Seeing Your Hometown Through the Fresh Eyes of Fiction", Literary Hub, June 30, 2017.
  29. Handscombe, Claire, "5 D.C. authors you should know (and their latest books)", DC Refined, May 18, 2017.
  30. “MARK TWAIN FORUM REVIEWS – FLOOD: A NOVEL BY MELISSA SCHOLES YOUNG” by Kevin Mac Donnell
  31. “AUTHOR OF AWARD-WINNING NOVEL “FLOOD” CONTINUES THE FALL TROUBLE BEGINS SERIES” by Joe Lemak
  32. EXCERPT: FLOOD BY MELISSA SCHOLES YOUNG PUBLISHED EXCLUSIVELY WITH JMWW
  33. Melissa Scholes Young (literature) published an article, "I Can't Be Your Becky: The Risk of Giving Readers What They Want," in the Mark Twain Journal. The journal was founded in 1936 and is one of the oldest American journals dedicated to a single author. Jan. 2020
  34. The Center for Mark Twain Studies is honored to announce the 2019 Class of Quarry Farm Fellows: Melissa Scholes Young
  35. “THE CRANE HOUSE SPEAKS (A QUARRY FARM TESTIMONIAL)” by Melissa Scholes Young
  36. Housman, Patty, "First-Gen Students Find a Home at AU," American University, College News, October 25, 2016.
  37. "First-gen professors reach out to first-gen students," Education Advisory Board, May 11, 2016.
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