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Melissa Chadburn

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Melissa Chadburn’s writing has appeared in The LA Times, NYT Book Review, NYRB, Longreads, Paris Review online, and dozens other places. Her essay on food insecurity was published in Best American Food Writing 2019. She’s done extensive reporting on the child welfare system and appears in the Netflix docuseries The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. Her debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. She is a Ph.D. candidate at USC’s Creative Writing Program. Melissa is a worker lover and through her own work and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence. Her mother taught her how to sharpen a pencil with a knife and she’s basically been doing that ever since.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 1,172 ratings · 285 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Tiny Upward Shove 3.88 avg rating — 1,123 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body by Michelle Cruz Gonzales (Contributor), Dani Burlison (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Silvia Federici (Contributor) 4.16 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Blows Against Encroaching Totalitarianism Volume 1 by Terrance Hayes (Contributor), Tom Bissell (Contributor), Dodie Bellamy 3.65 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kenyon Review, Jan/Feb 2022: Volume 44, Number 1 by Kenyon Review, Lan Samantha Chang (Goodreads Author), Melissa Chadburn (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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“Getting on the train felt like both an escape and a betrayal.”
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