Melissa Dereberry

Melissa Green Dereberry is an award-winning author whose work has appeared in Common Boundary, American Literary Realism, The Quest, Midwest Poetry Review, and Writer's Journal. She is the author of an instructional guide on the novel The Outsiders. Her awards include the Springfield Writer's Guild Grand Prize (1998), the Johnson Memorial Grand Prize Award - League of Minnesota Poets (2003), the William Stafford Award - Washington Poets Association (2009), and the Writer's Journal poetry contest (2011). She received an M.A. from Missouri State University and taught college English for over fifteen years.