Melinda FergusonMelinda L. Ferguson was born and raised in Lima, Ohio. After graduating from Miami University of Ohio with a BA in English, she moved to New York City where she earned a Masters' Degree from Columbia University, and worked as an editor at several pubishing companies including Warner Books, Walker & Co., and Macmillan. In the 1990s, her family moved to Northport, NY on Long Island, where she facilitated workshops in memoir and journal writing at libraries and adult education centers. For many years she served as an Adjunct Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College. In 2016, she was awarded an MFA degree in Creative Writing & Literature from Stony Brook/Southampton University. In 2019, Melinda moved to Charlotte, NC, to teach at Central Piedmont Community College and at Charlotte Center for Literary Arts (CharlotteLit), a non-profit organization supporting literary arts and culture. Read More Read Less