Melissa Duclos

Melissa Duclos is a novelist and essayist based in Portland, Oregon. Her debut novel, Besotted, a story about American expats in Shanghai, was published by 7.13 Books in 2019. She has written for The Washington Post, Salon, The Offing, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She founded Magnify, a monthly newsletter about small press books, and co-founded Amplify, a career support program for women and non-binary writers. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she received the Guston Fellowship. She is working on a second novel.