Melissa Grunow

The Book Excellence Awards selected Realizing River City as the 2018 winner of the memoir category. 

"Dwelling Place" was named a 2018 Notable Essay by The Best American Essays. 

Read it in my new book, I Don't Belong Here.

I Don't Belong Here is now available from New Meridian Arts Press! ​

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Contributor Spotlight: Interview with Midwestern Gothic.

Realizing River City

won the Nonfiction-Memoir Silver Medal in the 2017 Readers' Favorite International Book Contest. 

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