Stacy Parker Le Melle

Stacy Parker Le Melle is the author of Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House (HarperCollins/Ecco) and was the lead contributor to Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath (McSweeney’s). She chronicles stories for The Katrina Experience: An Oral History Project. Her essay “Ferry Cross the Mersey” was selected for publication as one of the winners of the 2021 Thornwillow Patrons’ Prize. She currently serves as Executive Editor for W.K.Kellogg Foundation’s Solidarity Council on Racial Equity. In 2020, she was named a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow for Nonfiction Literature. Her recent narrative nonfiction has been recently published in Nat. Brut, The Offing, Phoebe, Silk Road among other publications. She co-founded and curates Harlem’s First Person Plural Reading Series.