Melissa DaCosta Brown

Melissa DaCosta Brown is a graduate of Duke University and has a master's in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University. She worked for MSNBC and ABC News affiliates in Seattle and Washington, DC. Her short story "Husbands" recently won The Fiddlehead magazine's 2023 Fiction Contest, and her short story "A Prince of New York" won the 2024 Folly Journal Prize. Her short stories have been published in Wigleaf, Waccamaw, Subnivean, and Ponder Review. Her work has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Lascaux Prize.