Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the poetry collection Dear Weather Ghost, published in 2013 by Four Way Books, and two poetry chapbooks: Arbor (New Michigan Press) and Double Blind (Dancing Girl Press). Her noir novel, Sunset City, was released in 2016 from Ecco Books. Her poems have appeared in Fence, Denver Quarterly, Field, Pleiades, The Iowa Review, Blackbird, and other magazines. She has received support from the Mississippi Arts Council and the Ucross Foundation. Originally from Houston, Texas, Ginsburg attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.