Susan Melinda Dunlap is a Piltdown Review Featured Poet for August 2018. Her fiction has appeared in Bright Bones: Contemporary Montana Writing. She has also been published by Word Riot, and was editor of The Brooklyn Review. She has been commissioned as a playwright by The Root & the Bloom, and her plays have been seen in New York City, New Mexico, Montana and Kansas. She is the environmental reporter for the Montana Standard, where she covers the largest Superfund complex in the United States. She has received awards from the Montana Newspaper Association and the New Mexico Press Association for her journalism. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College, where she received the Louis B. Goodman Creative Writing Scholarship.