Melissa Marsh

Melissa A. Marsh holds a bachelor's degree in history from Chadron State College and a master's degree in history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For her master's thesis, she focused on the denazification program at the Fort Robinson German Prisoner of War Camp in Nebraska during World War II.

Marsh is a contributor to Americans at War: Biographical Dictionary of Americans on the Home Front, published by Greenwood Press in 2006; The Home Front Encylopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II, published by ABC-CLIO in 2006; and American Espionage Encylopedia, forthcoming from ABC-CLIO.

Her article, "'Still the Old Marlene': Hollywood at the Fort Robinson Prisoner of War Camp" was published in the summer/fall 2005 issue of Nebraska History, the journal for the Nebraska State Historical Society. For this article, Marsh earned the James L. Sellers Memorial Award for Outstanding Original Contribution Published in Nebraska History for 2006.

Her short stories have appeared in Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers and Emerging Voices.

In addition to being an independent historian, novelist, and freelancer, Marsh is also a marketing copywriter at a book publishing company. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and two children.