Melissa Huggins is the executive director of Spokane Arts. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Oyez Review, Lilac City Fairy Tales, Railtown Almanac, The Pacific Northwest Inlander and elsewhere.
She holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University and is working on a collection of essays. She serves on the boards of Scablands Books and Pivot, a live storytelling series.
This reading was first broadcast in 2018 and has been edited slightly for timeliness.