Melissa Ridley Elmes

Melissa Ridley Elmes is a Virginia native currently living in Missouri in an apartment that delightfully approximates a hobbit hole. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Haven, Spectral Realms, Reunion: The Dallas Review, In Parentheses, Black Fox, Gyroscope, and various other print and web venues, and her first collection of poems, Arthurian Things, was published by Dark Myth Publications in 2020 and was nominated for the Elgin Award for best book of speculative poetry in 2022.