Melanie Sumner

Melanie Sumner (born December 30, 1963) is an American writer and college professor. She was acclaimed as one of "America's Best Young Novelists" in 1995. Writer Jill McCorkle says, "She comes to her characters with this wealth of knowledge. She's so well-versed in those wonderful little details that make up Southern towns. She has such a rich expanse of her fictional turf wildly varied and yet always occupied with this kind of social manners and morals and taboos."

Sumner is an associate professor of English at Kennesaw State University. Provided by Wikipedia