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Melissa Studdard is the author of five books, including the poetry collections 'Dear Selection Committee' and 'I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast', the poetry chapbook 'Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings', and the young adult novel 'Six Weeks to Yehidah'.

Her work has been featured by NPR, PBS, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Houston Matters, and has also appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, such as POETRY, Kenyon Review, Psychology Today, New Ohio Review, Harvard Review, New England Review, and Poets & Writers.

A short film of the title poem from Studdard's 'I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast' (by Dan Sickles of Moxie Pictures for Motionpoems) was an official selection for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and the Minneapolis St. Pau Melissa Studdard is the author of five books, including the poetry collections 'Dear Selection Committee' and 'I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast', the poetry chapbook 'Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings', and the young adult novel 'Six Weeks to Yehidah'.

Her work has been featured by NPR, PBS, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Houston Matters, and has also appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, such as POETRY, Kenyon Review, Psychology Today, New Ohio Review, Harvard Review, New England Review, and Poets & Writers.

A short film of the title poem from Studdard's 'I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast' (by Dan Sickles of Moxie Pictures for Motionpoems) was an official selection for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, as well as winner of the REEL Poetry Festival Audience Choice Award.

Other poems of Studdard's have been made into car magnets, telepoem booth recordings, origami bouquets, and Houston City Banners and have won or placed in prizes such as The Lucille Medwick Memorial Award for a poem on a humanitarian theme from The Poetry Society of America, The Penn Review Poetry Prize, Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize from The Missouri Review, the Tom Howard Prize from Winning Writers, The Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize from Munster Literature Centre, and Aesthetica magazine Creative Writing Award.

Her book awards include the Forward National Literature Award, the International Book Award, the Kathak Literary Award, the Poiesis Award of Honor International, the Readers' Favorite Award, and two Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards. As well, her works have been listed in Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts' Best Books of the Year, January Magazine's Best Children’s Books of the Year, Bustle's "8 Feminist Poems To Inspire You When The World Is Just Too Much," and Amazon's Most Gifted Books.

In addition to writing, Studdard serves on the advisory board of Roulah Foundation, is a past president of the Associated Writing Program's Women's Caucus, and is former executive producer and host of VIDA Voices & Views for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence college and is a professor for the Lone Star College System.

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	Six Weeks to Yehidah 4.16 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast 4.55 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Selection Committee 4.35 avg rating — 54 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Yehidah: A Journal into the Story of You by Melissa Studdard (Goodreads Author), Cheryl Kelley (Illustrator) 4.91 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tiferet Talk Interviews by Melissa Studdard (Goodreads Author), Donna Baier-Stein (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Robert Pinsky (Contributor) 4.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For the Love of All (Mark Miller's One, #5) by Melissa Studdard (Goodreads Author) (Author), Scott Lutz, Mark Miller (Goodreads Author) (Series Creator) 4.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One: A Spiritual Anthology by Mark Miller (Goodreads Author), De Miller (Goodreads Author), Sudè Khanian 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tofu Festival it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I’m thrilled to see the first published poem from my new manuscript-in-progress, about the severed tongue of the mythological character Philomela, in the May 2019 issue of Poetry and at the Poetry Foundation website. I’ve been working on the poems for several months now, and this poem comes from the first batch I’ve sent out. So exciting!

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The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

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