Mellissa Black

Mellissa Black is a small-town Southern girl, but since graduating high school, she has lived across the U.S. and now lives in Northern Alabama. She holds a Ph.D. in Eighteenth-Century Literature from the University of Mississippi. Currently, she lectures at the University of North Alabama.

In search of a type of immortality in the wake of a cancer diagnosis, her writing grapples with her Appalachian past to preserve the dying vernacular, humorous truths, and culture of a place she will forever call home.