Melissa Pritchard

Melissa Pritchard is the author of eleven books, including a novel Palmerino, a story collection, The Odditorium, and an essay collection, A Solemn Pleasure. Among other honors, she has received the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Carson McCullers Center. Emeritus Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Arizona State University, Pritchard's latest book, a highly praised fictional biography of Florence Nightingale, Flight of the Wild Swan, was published by Bellevue Literary Press, NYC in March 2024. An audiobook is also available.