Melissa Matthewson

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Melissa Matthewson is the author of a memoir, Tracing the Desire Line, from Split/Lip Press (2019), a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Oregon Humanities, Guernica, American Literary Review, The Rumpus, and Longreads, among others. She teaches in the low residency MFA program at Eastern Oregon University.

Stories

Cover Photo: A photograph of the exterior of a grey clapboard house with a dark grey roof, bordered by a wooden fence and backed by tall evergreen and deciduous trees against a vivid blue sky.
Buying a House As a Queer Single Mother

Despite my newfound independence, I struggle with the notion that I’m buying into a privileged system of inequity.