Melis­sa Stud­dard is the author of five books, includ­ing the poet­ry col­lec­tion I ATE THE COS­MOS FOR BREAK­FAST. Her work has been pub­lished or fea­tured by places such as NPR, PBS, The New York Times, The Guardian, POET­RY, Keny­on Review, Psy­chol­o­gy Today, and New Eng­land Review. Her awards include The Poet­ry Soci­ety of Amer­i­ca’s Lucille Med­wick Memo­r­i­al Award, The Penn Review Poet­ry Prize, the REEL Poet­ry Fes­ti­val Audi­ence Choice Award, the Tom Howard Prize, and more.