Jul 13, 2022
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.
Melissa Matthewson
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.
