Melissa Scholes Young
<B>Melissa Scholes Young</B> is an award-winning author from Hannibal, Missouri, which she proudly claims as her hometown. Her writing has appeared in the <I>Atlantic, Washington Post, Narrative, Ploughshares, Poets & Writers</I>, and other literary journals. She teaches at American University in Washington, <I>D.C. Flood</I> is her first novel.