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About Melissa Pritchard

Melissa Pritchard is the author of two story collections, Spirit Seizures, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award, and The Instinct for Bliss, which received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award, as well as two novels, Phoenix and Selene of the Spirits. Fiction from a forthcoming collection has appeared recently in The Paris Review, Boulevard, The Gettysburg Review, and is forthcoming in Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards. She teaches in the creative writing program at Arizona State University.