Melissa Wiley won the 2019 Autumn House Press Full-Length Nonfiction Contest, judged by Paul Lisicky, for her book "Skull Cathedral," interweaving reflections on the body’s vestigial organs with autobiographical fragments. She is also author of the personal essay collection "Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena" (Split/Lip Press, 2017), and her fiction and essays have appeared in places like American Literary Review, Terrain.org, The Rumpus, Entropy, DIAGRAM, Phoebe, Waxwing, The Offing, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and PANK. She serves as nonfiction editor for Sundog Lit and development associate for MAKE Literary Productions.