Melissa Studdard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Melissa Studdard

writer

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1969

Place of Birth: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

Profession: novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Melissa Studdard was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and is an American author, poet, editor, book reviewer, talk show host, and professor.
Her most recent book is the poetry collection I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast.
The title poem from this collection was produced as a short film and featured as an official selection at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival.
Her middle-grade novel, Six Weeks to Yehidah won a Forward National Literature Award and Pinnacle Book Achievement Award.
The accompanying journal, My Yehidah, was released in December 2011 and was adopted by art and play therapists for clinical use in adolescent therapy sessions.Studdard is a full-time college professor at Lone Star College–Tomball and a former teaching artist for The Rooster Moans Poetry Cooperative.
From 2010 to 2012, she was an editor for The Criterion: An International Journal in English.
She hosts and produces VIDA Voices & Views for Vida: Women in Literary Arts.
In her podcast work she has interviewed such figures as Jane Hirshfield, Rita Dove, Julia Cameron, Robert Pinsky, Patricia Smith, Cheryl Strayed, Joy Harjo, and Krista Tippett.
Studdard also serves as president of the Women's Caucus and moderates their annual meeting at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference.