Melody Nixon is a New Zealand–born writer living in New York City. Her essays, poetry, fiction, and interviews have appeared in Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Cura Magazine, Midnight Breakfast, No Dear Magazine, Bloom, and Hoax Publication, among others. She co-founded Apogee Journal, is the interviews editor for The Common, and co-curates the First Person Plural reading series in Harlem. Melody holds an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University.