Melissa Studdard Biography

Melissa Stud­dard is the author of the best­selling novel Six Weeks to Yehi­dah (winner of the Forward National Literature Award) and My Yehidah. Her poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and arti­cles have appeared in dozens of jour­nals and antholo­gies, includ­ing Boule­vard, Con­necti­cut Review, Pleiades, Gradiva, Amer­i­can Book Review, Poets and Writers, and The Smok­ing Poet. She serves as a reviewer-at-large for The National Poetry Review and a con­tribut­ing edi­tor for Tiferet Journal. As well, she is the host of Tiferet’s radio inter­view program, Tiferet Talk, which interviews writers and spiritual and religious leaders. Studdard received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a professor at a community college in Texas and a teaching artist at The Rooster Moans Poetry Cooperative.