Melissa Studdard is the author of the poetry collection I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, and she is the executive producer and host of the video podcast VIDA Voices & Views for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Her shorter works have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Poets & Writers, Harvard Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Psychology Today, Pleiades, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day.