Melanie Moyer is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. She writes about literature, music, contemporary perceptions of the medieval, art and culture, materialism in political movements, and food. Her poetry and creative nonfiction writing has been featured in The Spectrum, riverrun, and more.

She is a Master’s candidate in New York University’s Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement (XE) department. There, she is earning an advanced certificate in Experimental Writing and another in the Public Humanities. She is the student representative of the program and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental Practice.

She has studied with Salman Rushdie (Journalism as Literature), Alissa Wilkinson (Writing as Seeing), Shiv Kotecha (Perverse Methods: Poetry), Emma Heaney (Interdisciplinarity), Sonia Werner (Aesthetics: Art, Politics, & Philosophy), and more.

She is a communications writer for Willamette University, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), and Atkinson School of Management; a fact-checker for AAA’s Via Magazine and Diablo Magazine; and a copy-editor for Diablo Publishing. She is also the Vice President of Communications for Little Mango Recordings, an experimental music label based in Los Angeles.

Moyer earned a Bachelors of Art in English Literary Theory and History from Saint Mary’s College of California. She minored in Music and Women’s and Gender Studies. There, she studied Medieval Literature and Theory under the supervision of Dr. Lisa Manter, and her thesis was titled “Gazing at the Green Knight: Drag Kinging, King Arthur, and Performative Masculinity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” She also studied music under violinist Liana Bérubé and pianist Lino Rivera.

When she’s not writing, she can be found playing the fiddle, translating Middle English poetry, walking around the Green-Wood cemetery, identifying birds of prey, and cooking.