Melanie Sumner
Melanie Sumner, winner of the Whiting Award, is the author of The Ghost of Milagro Creek (New Mexico Book Awards 2010), the coming-of-age-novel, The School of Beauty and Charm, and Polite Society, a collection of West African short stories. Sumner’s publishing history includes short fiction and creative nonfiction in eight anthologies and numerous journals including The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, and Atlanta Magazine. She has appeared on NPR and Georgia Public Radio. Currently she lives in Rome, Georgia and teaches at Kennesaw State University.