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Melissa Ginsburg

Biography

Melissa Ginsburg

Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the novels THE HOUSE UPTOWN and SUNSET CITY, the poetry collection DEAR WEATHER GHOST, and two poetry chapbooks, ARBOR and DOUBLE BLIND. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review and other magazines. Originally from Houston, Texas, Melissa studied poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Mississippi, and serves as Associate Editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with two dogs, 11 chickens and the writer Chris Offutt.

Books by Melissa Ginsburg

The House Uptown
by Melissa Ginsburg - Fiction

Following her mother’s death, 14-year-old Ava is on a train heading to New Orleans, to stay with the grandmother she barely remembers. Lane is a well-known artist in the New Orleans art scene. She spends most of her days in a pot-smoke haze, sipping iced coffee, and painting, which has been her singular focus for years. Ava’s arrival unsettles Lane. The girl bears an uncanny resemblance to her daughter, from whom she was estranged before her death. Now her presence is dredging up painful and disturbing memories, which forces Lane to retreat even further into her own mind. As Ava and Lane attempt to form a bond, the oppressive heat and history of New Orleans bears down on them, forcing a reckoning neither of them are ready for.