Melissa Ridley Elmes is a Virginia native currently living in Missouri in an apartment that delightfully approximates a hobbit hole. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in DarkWinter, Story in 100 Words, Black Fox, PoetrySouth, Belmont Story Review, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, and various other print and web venues. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Arthurian Things (2020) and Dreamscapes and Dark Corners (2023), and a children’s book, When a Dragon Has a Cold (2024). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Elgin, Rhysling, and Dwarf Star awards.
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