Abigail Melchior (she/her) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in the MFA program for fiction at UMSL. She instructs First-Year Composition courses and runs the English Department’s social media accounts.
Abigail is working on her first novel, a literary thriller, and was a winner of the 91st Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, in the genre category, for her short story "No Rest for the Wicked". Abigail is also the Marketing Manager for River Styx literary journal, and writes book reviews on her Instagram account, @literati_list. When not reading or writing, Abigail collects rocks & watches Disney movies with her nephew, Charlie, and is bossed around by her unruly German Shorthaired Pointer, Hessia.
Reading Recommendations:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Little Eve by Catriona Ward
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
In Defense of Witches by Mona Chollet
Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros
Monsters by Claire Dederer
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Funny Story by Emily Henry
