Contributor

Melissa Duge Spiers

Guest Writer

Melissa Duge Spiers is an award-winning screenwriter and memoirist. This essay is excerpted from her memoir β€œThe Glory Whole,” which won the Book Pipeline 2021 Unpublished Manuscript Non-Fiction award and is currently in the publishing process (for more info, check out her Instagram @the.glory.whole). She is represented by Dani Segelbaum/ARC Literary Management. For more from her, visit her Instagram at @melissadugespiers_writer.