![]() As well as being a development editor for the press, she also has a hand in choosing which books will get published. She is one of the people behind the scenes who the publisher passes full manuscripts to when they need to be considered for publication. If Melissa says it's a firm yes, then the chances are, you're in!
Melissa has a B.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C. Her work can be found in the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, San Pedro River Review, Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal 2015, Pinesong, the South Carolina Yearbook, Apalachee Review, Comstock Review, Lyric Magazine, The Poet’s Word, and TINGE. She currently plays keyboard for Kael Jackson. |
Just like Melanie, Alexis scored her role at Vine Leaves Press by first becoming an author here. Her memoir in vignettes, Not a Place on Any Map, was the winner of the 2016 Vine Leaves Press Vignette Collection Award. Paige is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, whose essay, “The Right to Remain,” from The Rumpus, was named a Notable in the 2016 Best American Essays Anthology. Winner of the 2013 New Millennium Nonfiction Prize and twice a finalist in Glamour Magazine’s essay contest, her work has also appeared in many journals. Paige is also an editor for Brevity Journal, and she holds an MA in poetry from San Francisco State University and an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine. She teaches college writing, and has served as guest faculty at the Stonecoast MFA program, as writer-in-residence at Bay Path University, and as visiting artist at Saint Lawrence University. Paige writes from a converted farmhouse pantry in Vermont, where she lives with her husband, two dogs, and one wayward duck.
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