Melissa Chadburn

Melissa Chadburn's writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times , The New York Times Book Review , The New York Review of Books , The Paris Review Daily , The Best American Food Writing , and many other publications. Her extensive reporting on the child welfare system appears in the Netflix docuseries The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez . Melissa is a worker lover and through her own labor and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence. Her mother taught her how to sharpen a pencil...See more

Melissa Chadburn's writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times , The New York Times Book Review , The New York Review of Books , The Paris Review Daily , The Best American Food Writing , and many other publications. Her extensive reporting on the child welfare system appears in the Netflix docuseries The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez . Melissa is a worker lover and through her own labor 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. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and lives in greater Los Angeles. See less