Melissa D. Burrage's "Flying Business Class to ‘Paradise’"
Bio: Melissa is the author of The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War 1 America (melissadburrage.com). She is a member of the Westwood Poetry Group, the Marge Piercy Poetry Group, a 2022 winner of the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest. Her work can be found in Wood Cat Review, Poetica Review, Foyer Magazine, Syncopation Literary Journal, Smoky Quartz Tenth Anniversary Literary Anthology and Southern Arizona Press Anthology: The Poppy: A Symbol of Remembrance , all forthcoming. The Karl Muck Scandal was the winner of the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) for US History; BBC Music Magazine’s Best Classical Music Book Release of 2019; Best Book Award Finalist in 2019 in History and Performing Arts categories. In 2020, Melissa received the Charles A. Hildebrandt Award for Excellence in Holocaust and Genocide Studies by the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Long lines. Crowded seats. ...