Melissa Ginsburg is the Director of the Creative Writing MFA and the PhD in English with Creative Writing Concentration. Ginsburg teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry and fiction workshops and literature courses.
Biography
Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, the poetry collections Runoff (forthcoming in 2026 from Milkweed Editions), Doll Apollo, and Dear Weather Ghost, and three poetry chapbooks, Arbor, Double Blind, and Apollo. She is winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry award and has been named the South Arts 2024 Mississippi State Fellow for Literary Arts. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Image, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. She is Director of graduate Creative Writing Programs at the University of Mississippi, and serves as Associate Editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
Publications
Dear Weather Ghost
The House Uptown
Sunset City
Courses Taught
- Writ 101 First- Year Writing I
- ENG 199 Introduction to Creative Writing
- Eng 211 Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENG 224 American Literature Since 1865
- ENG 301 Beginning Poetry Workshop
- ENG 302 Beginning Fiction Workshop
- Eng 311 Beginning Fiction Workshop
- Eng 317 Beginning Poetry Workshop
- Eng 352 Selected Topics in Popular Literature
- Eng 397 Junior Seminar: Poetry
- ENG 400 Advanced Poetry Workshop
- ENG 401 Advanced Fiction Workshop
- ENG 600 Form Craft & Influence: Fiction
- ENG 679 Form, Craft, and Influence: Poetry
- ENG 680 Graduate Fiction Workshop I
- ENG 681 Graduate Fiction Workshop
- ENG 682 Graduate Poetry Workshop
- ENG 683 Form Craft & Influence: Poetry
- Eng 695 Directed Reading in American Literature
Education
B.A. English, University of Houston (2001)
MFA English, Central University of Iowa (2005)