Mel Morrow holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is the Marketing Coordinator for Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She skates under a hilariously dirty derby name for the Midwest Roller Derby Collective, of which she is a founding member. She is an avid reader and writer who enjoys riding her bike around Milwaukee and lounging with her two naughty Old Lady cats.
"I wanted Jam to feel like a story, not a classroom, and a story where the hand of the writer is almost rendered invisible; this will always be the primary goal for my novels." Read More
Jam on the Vine will resonate with many kinds of readers in myriad ways. Not only is it a well-researched and historically accurate account of southern African American survival, northern migration, and identity formation, it is an arresting real-world allegory. Read More
