Melissa Chadburn’s writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times Book Review, New York Review Books, Longreads.com, Paris Review online and dozens of other places. Her essay on food insecurity was published in Best American Food Writing 2019. Her debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California’s Creative Writing Program. Chadburn is a worker lover and through her own work and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence. Her mother taught her how to sharpen a pencil with a knife and she's basically been doing that ever since.
