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Melissa Chadburn’s writing has appeared in The LA Times, NYT Book Review, NYRB, Longreads, Paris Review online, and dozens of other places. Her debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, was published with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in April 2022. She is a Ph.D. candidate at USC’s Creative Writing Program. Melissa 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.

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Melissa Chadburn

Melissa Chadburn’s writing has appeared in The LA Times, NYT Book Review, NYRB, Longreads, Paris Review online, and dozens of other places. Her debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, was published with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in April 2022. She is a Ph.D. candidate at USC’s Creative Writing Program. Melissa 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.

Articles by Melissa Chadburn

Freedom to Want
November 8, 2022

Freedom to Want