Melissa Vincel (she/her) recently spent two weeks at the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon, Portugal—thanks to the incredibly generous Literary Cleveland Fellowship. She has published poetry and memoir over the last 30 years in hopes of connecting with readers through true stories, nearly-true stories, and wildly untrue stories.
Melissa Vincel (she/her) recently spent two weeks at the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon, Portugal—thanks to the incredibly generous Literary Cleveland Fellowship. She has published poetry and memoir over the last 30 years in hopes of connecting with readers through true stories, nearly-true stories, and wildly untrue stories. Whatever you hear today, her work is always searching for something larger: an elusive, collective truth about what we all might be doing here.
