Melissa Jensen received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, returning in 2009 to teach. Her primary areas of academic interest are Children's Literature, 18th-20th Century British Literature, the Gothic, and Adolescence in Media and Society. And stuff like cautionary tales, bog bodies, memento mori, and where the grim(m) intersects with 21st Century pop culture.
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Fiction Writing Workshop: Happily Ever After. Or Not. Fairy Tales for Contemporary Writers