Melissa Chadburn

Melissa Chadburn’s debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, was published with Farrar, Straus & Giroux in April 2022 and was long-listed for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. She was just awarded her PhD from 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. She teaches at Pitzer College.