Melissa Goodrich received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona. Most recently her fiction has been awarded a 2013 AWP Intro Award, forthcoming in Artful Dodge, and her poetry has received the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Margaret Sterling Memorial Award. Her first chapbook of poetry is published by 4th and Verse, called If You What.
Summer 2014
Super
Out in our backyard, my brothers started picking superpowers and I chose “breathe water.” Gary chose super strength so he grabbed me by my ankles and dunked me hair-first into the pool.