Songs without Words
Grief, securing its furthest reach, may enclose someone as completely as a mother encloses a fetus.
Melissa Wiley
Melissa Wiley won the 2019 Autumn House Press nonfiction contest for Skull Cathedral, which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award and interweaves reflections on the body's vestigial organs with autobiographical fragments. She is also author of the personal essay collection Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena (Split/Lip Press, 2017).