Dr. Melody Glenn is an author and assistant professor of addiction and emergency medicine at the University of Arizona. 

Her first book, Mother of Methadone, is a hybrid memoir forthcoming (summer of 2025) from Beacon Press that weaves her own story as an addiction physician with that of the history of methadone maintenance and its founder, the radical Dr. Marie Nyswander. With an MFA in prose from Mills College, Dr. Glenn is a 2020 Tin House Summer Workshop alum and a 2024 deGroot Foundation Finalist. Her work has been supported by the El Sur Artist Residency in Mexico City (2024) and a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts (2024). She is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency.

She graduated with her M.D. from The University of Southern California, completed her emergency medicine residency at Maricopa Medical Center, and earned her EMS fellowship from The University of California, San Francisco. Triple-boarded in emergency medicine, EMS, and addiction medicine, she is the medical director for several fire departments in Southern Arizona, the director of the addiction medicine consult service at Banner University Medical Center Tucson, the director of the outpatient addiction medicine Whole Health Clinic, and a board member of Cochise Harm Reduction.