Melissa Broder
| Melissa Broder | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Los Angeles |
| Alma mater | Tufts University (BA), City College of New York (MFA) |
| Occupation | Poet, essayist |
| Notable work | So Sad Today, Last Sext |
| Home town | Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania |
| Awards | Pushcart Prize |
| Website | melissabroder |
Melissa Broder is a poet and essayist. Her work includes poetry collection Last Sext (Tin House 2016) and essay collection So Sad Today (Grand Central 2016), as well as a popular Twitter feed also titled So Sad Today, on which the book is based.
Broder grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Her parents were a teacher and a tax lawyer. She attended the Baldwin School and became interested in poetry early, writing her first collection in third grade.
She then attended Tufts University where she studied English and edited the literary magazine Queen's Head and Artichoke. After graduating, she moved to San Francisco, then to New York where she worked as a publicist for Penguin Books and attended night classes at City College of New York, earning an MFA in poetry.
Broder has published four collections of poetry. In 2017, Broder won a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Forgotten Sound", included in her collection Last Sext.
Broder began her So Sad Today Twitter account, initially anonymously, in 2012. She revealed herself as the account's author in an Rolling Stone interview in May 2015.
As of May 2017, the So Sad Today Twitter account had more than 450,000 followers.
In 2016, Broder published a collection of personal essays, So Sad Today, based on her Twitter account. The collection includes some essays initially published at Vice under her So Sad Today pen name.
Broder has also written horoscopes for Lena Dunham's newsletter Lenny Letter and has a television pilot in development.
Broder is married and lives in Los Angeles.
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