ThreeDecker Workshop & Reading

Melissa Surrette grew up in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts. She now spends her time between her family in Worcester and at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) where she is a PhD candidate. She has contributed chapters to edited volumes such as Qualitative Inquiry in the Present Tense: Writing a New History and in the Demystifying Social Justice Education book series. Melissa has also co-authored an article in the “International Review of Qualitative Research”. Her published poems can be found in ThreeDecker and ONE ART: a journal of poetry. Melissa is a member of the PoemWorks poetry group as well as the Round Table Poetry Workshop based out of the Boston area.