Melora Wolff is a prose writer whose book Bequeath: Essays is available from Louisiana State University Press on September 13, 2024. Melora’s work has been published in many journals and anthologies including: the New York Times, Brick, Speculative Nonfiction, The Normal School, the Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, Salmagundi, and Best American Fantasy, Best New Writing, and Every Father’s Daughter: 24 Women Writers Remember Their Fathers (edited by Phillip Lopate and Margaret McMullan). She has received multiple Notable Essay of the Year citations from Best American Essays and Special Mentions in Nonfiction from the Pushcart Prizes; the Thomas A. Wilhelmus Award in Nonfiction Prose from Southern Indiana Review; and Nonfiction fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She holds her MFA from Columbia University, and a BA from Brown University. She directs Creative Writing at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs.

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SESSION INFO:
Sunday, October 6, 11:30am at Embassy Suites Skidmore Room: Nonfiction: Critical and Personal with Melora Wolff & Jay Rogoff