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Published Work

Short Fiction, Essays, Articles

The New York Times, Modern Love June 25th 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/style/modern-love-greece-loss-last-shopping-list.html


Athens Insider Magazine 2021

https://www.athensinsider.com/go-with-the-flow-the-andros-skate-park-that-became-an-art-gallery/


Michigan Quarterly Review   April 2020

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2020/04/the-sea-fools-you/


MacQueen’s Quinterly  January 2020

http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ1/Melis-January-Widow.aspx


Glimmer Train August 2015  Essay on Greece (Bulletin #103) 


Guernica  July 2015  Essay on Greece

https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/amalia-melis-waiting-for-greece/

CNN  I Reports  July 2015 Essay on Greece

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1255951

KYSO Flash Oct. 2014 

http://www.kysoflash.com/Issue1/MelisRyan.aspx  

KYSO Flash Oct. 2014 

http://www.kysoflash.com/Issue1/MelisAssemblages.aspx

Writers@Work Feb. 2014 Short Story Finalist & Honorable Mention 

“A One Minute Dream”

Glimmer Train Dec. 2013 Honorable Mention Short Story 

“I Know My Place”

Ducts 2013 (winter issue) Essay on Greece 

http://www.ducts.org/content/essays/screaming-from-inside-the-sealed-vault/


Glimmer Train April 2012 Essay on Greece (Bulletin #63) 

http://www.glimmertrain.com/bulletins/essays/b63melis.php

Glimmer Train 2007 Short Story finalist 

"Broken English" 

Glimmer Train 2005 Short Story finalist 

"Daughter News" 

Glimmer Train 2002 (Spring) 2nd Place Short Story Award for New Writers 

"Immigrant Daughter"