For weeks after we moved into the new apartment I pestered you to fix the sign over my bed, done in frilly pink and purple script to look like the page of a fairy tale. “Kimmy’s Special Place,” it said, and, if you remember, I was not Kimmy, the previous tenant. A fact I wanted […]
Melissa Shepherd
Melissa Shepherd is a writer, editor, and arts advocate who lives in Hoboken, NJ. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Good River Review, Jarnal, Twin Bird Review, and The Dread Literary Review. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Naslund-Mann School of Writing at Spalding University and recently completed her first full collection of poems, Keys to the Emptying House. www.melissashepherd.info