Melissa Goodrich is a writer based in Tucson, Arizona. She received her BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University and her MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Artful Dodge, The Kenyon Review Online, Passages North, PANK, Word Riot, Gigantic Sequins, and others. She is the author of the collaborative collection The Classroom, the fiction collection Daughters of Monsters, the poetry chapbook IF YOU WHAT. She is currently at work on a novel about the end of the world.

Her honors include the 2018 Passage's North Waasnode Fiction Prize, the 2016 Tucson Festival of Books Fiction Award, the 2013 Margaret Sterling Memorial Award, the 2013 AWP Intro Award, and the 2012 Academy of American Poets Prize.