Melissa Matthewson lives and writes in southwestern Oregon. She is the author of Tracing the Desire Line: A Memoir in Essays from Split/Lip Press (2019). Her nonfiction has appeared in Guernica, AEON Psyche, Literary Hub, Longreads, American Literary Review, The Rumpus, River Teeth, DIAGRAM, Catapult, Bellingham Review, Oregon Humanities, and The Common, among others. Her work has also been awarded an AWP Intro Journals Award in Creative Nonfiction and her book was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. She teaches in the low-residency MFA in Creative and Environmental Writing at Eastern Oregon University.
