Melissa Hung is a writer and journalist who grew up in Houston, the eldest child of immigrants. She is the founding editor in chief of Hyphen. Her essays have appeared in Longreads, Catapult, wildness, Vogue, NPR.org, and the anthologies Disability Intimacy (Vintage Books, 2024) and Body Language (Catapult, 2022). Hung lives in New York City, where she is at work on a collection of creative nonfiction about her mother, inheritance, and grief.
