Melissa Ginsburg, Assistant Professor and Creative Writing, is a poet and novelist. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (2005). She teaches creative writing workshops in poetry and fiction, as well as courses in American literature and poetry as literature. Her work has appeared in many magazines, including Fence, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Kenyon Review. She has worked in editorial positions for several literary magazines including Gulf Coast and Yalobusha Review.