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Melissa Oliveira

Melissa Oliveira

Melissa Oliveira’s essays and poems are published or forthcoming in AGNI, Post Road, BOAAT Journal, Arts & Letters and others, and her work has been listed as a Best American Essays Notable. Her reviews appear in Hippocampus, the Review Review and PANK Online. She lives in Berlin, where she is writing a series of essays about wandering through history and the once-divided city.