Melissa Range
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session III
Melissa Range was born and raised in East Tennessee. She received a BA from the University of Tennessee–Knoxville in 1995, an MFA from Old Dominion University in 1998, and an MTS from Emory University in 2005.
Range is the author of three poetry collections: Printer’s Fist (Vanderbilt University Press, 2025), winner of the Vanderbilt University Literary Prize; Scriptorium (Beacon Press, 2016), selected for the National Poetry Series by Tracy K. Smith, and Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). She has received awards and fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation, among other foundations.
Range currently teaches at Lawrence University and lives in Wisconsin.