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MELISSA PRITCHARD

Official website of fiction writer and essayist Melissa Pritchard

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    • Flight of the Wild Swan
    • A Solemn Pleasure
    • Palmerino
    • The Odditorium
    • Devotedly Virginia
    • Late Bloomer
    • Disappearing Ingenue
    • Selene Of The Spirits
    • Instinct For Bliss
    • Phoenix
    • Spirit Seizures
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Media

Interview with Su Jeffries, Florence Nightingale Foundation Newsletter, London, September 2025

Interview with Farrah Amjad, Florence Nightingale Foundation Newsletter, London, October 2025

“Don’t Eat Your Young” podcast with Host Beth Quaas

Melissa Pritchard and Lauren Aliza Green “Some Words Are Just Better Than Others”

Melissa Pritchard discusses Flight of the Wild Swan with Suzanne Koven, MD at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Russell Museum

The BBC’s History Magazine podcast, HistoryExtra, “Life of the Week” interview with Rachel Dinning (watch | listen)

“…an amazing book. Just an incredible book. Definitely worth reading.” | NPR/GPB’s Peter Biello, All Things Considered

Interview with hosts Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya | NPR and Georgia Public Broadcasting’s “Narrative Edge.”

ASU professor unveils new book about Florence Nightingale | Arizona PBS

Episode 1: Unveiling Florence Nightingale | Nurse.com

Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb: Q&A with Melissa Pritchard

New book pays homage to Florence Nightingale | ASU News

Florence Nightingale overcame the limits set on proper Victorian women – and brought modern science and statistics to nursing | The Conversation

On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale | LitHub

Out of Silence: Readings from the Afghan Women’s Writing Project
MFA Program in Creative Writing, Department of English, Arizona State University
Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe Arizona
MFA Students’ Fundraiser for the Afghan Women’s Writing Project (2015)