Finding Our Way Forward

Melanie Springer Mock is a professor of English at George Fox University (Newberg, OR), an evangelical Friends institution, where she primarily teaches first-year writing, memoir, and journalism courses. She is author or coauthor of five books, including, most recently, Worthy: Finding Yourself in a World Expecting Someone Else (Herald Press, 2018). Her essays and reviews have appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Nation, Christian Feminism Today, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Runner's World, and Inside Higher Education, among other places, and she is a regular reviewer for Anabaptist World, Red Letter Christians, and Christiansfor Social Action. Melanie and her husband live in Dundee, Oregon, and have two 19-year-old sons. She is a stepmom to two adults and "Nani" to two grandsons. In her free time, Melanie enjoys running, swimming, biking, knitting, and watching reality television.