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
Education
MFA English, Central College (2005)
B.A. English, University of Houston (2001)