Tucson Festival of Books

Melody Jean Glenn (she/her)



Desiree Bustos

Dr. Melody Glenn is a physician and the author of "Mother of Methadone," a hybrid memoir/biography that weaves her own story with that of Dr. Marie Nyswander, the radical physician who developed methadone maintenance in the 1960s. Dr. Glenn is a Tin House Writers workshop alum with an MFA in creative writing from Mills College. Her work has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and appeared in Time, Salon, Mutha, the Believer, River Teeth, and several academic medical journals.

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Book:
Mother of Methadone
A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Beacon Press
July 2025
ISBN 9780807017760
232 pages