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Melissa Chichester


Michigan
About

Melissa Chichester is a third-generation Finnish American from the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University and is a full-time copywriter and a part-time faculty member at Delta College. Her work has appeared in Old Northwest Review, Welter, and Animal Wellness Magazine, and she is the author of I Am Safe Here: A New Start for Scout. Melissa is currently at work on a full-length fictional manuscript about the 1913 Calumet and Hecla copper strike.