Photographer Melody Swaney Golding lives in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Golding attended the University of Mississippi and Mississippi College, earning degrees in art.
Golding has published two books of her work: Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember (University Press of Mississippi, 2007) and Panther Tract: Wild Boar Hunting in the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 2011).
Her photographs are in several public and private collections including the Mississippi Museum of Art.