Melissa Studdard is the author of the poetry collections Dear Selection Committee and I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, as well as the chapbook Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings. Her work has been featured by PBS, NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, the Best American Poetry blog, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and has appeared in periodicals such as Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. Her Awards include the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Penn Review Poetry Prize, the Tom Howard Prize, the REELpoetry International Film Festival Audience Choice Award, and more.