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Melissa Stein

Freelance editor

Current City
San Francisco, CA, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry
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Biography

Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Harvard Review, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, and others, and she’s received awards and fellowships from the NEA, Pushcart Prize, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.

Published Works

Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press, 2018)
Rough Honey (APR, 2010)

Links to Sample Works