Melissa Brooks is a Chicago-based writer with an MFA in Fiction from the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Atticus Review, Cleaver Magazine, Arcturus, and elsewhere. Her short story, “Closed Casket Calling Hours,” was included in Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions. Explore more of her work here: https://linktr.ee/MelissaRoseBrooks