Melissa Prunty Kemp

AboutMe 

I have been writing and teaching for what seems my entire life.  I teach College Composition currently, and have been teaching various literature, composition, technical and business writing courses for the last 27 years. For a few of those years, I was a department chair.  My education background is varied—I earned a B.A. in Psychology from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA, and was the second African American to earn an M.A. in English from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. I studied Early American and Harlem Renaissance literature at Kent State University.  My final degree, a Master in Fine Arts Creative Writing, was earned at from Queens University of Charlotte, NC. 

 

While I write most anything--online content, scholarly articles, political ramblings and blog articles on health and wellness, my first love has always been poetry.  I wrote my first poems at age 13, which were published in the junior high literary magazine, The Bagpipe, and in other yearbooks.  At the time, my imagination soared like the hawks flying outside my mountain school's paned windows.  I knew no other way to extol the love I had for an unknown Cheyenne Indian in Wyoming; a poem was the only way I could possibly reach out to him, whoever he was!  I have been writing ever since. 

 

To learn more about what I've written and where you can find it (aside from this website), go here.