Melanie is the writer who finds solace and meaning by finding the precise combination of words to convey an everyday image or emotion in a new way.

She has her MFA from Hamline University, where her book in progress won the Outstanding Thesis Award.  She also won the Baltimore Review and New Millennium Writings Creative Non-Fiction awards, and has been published in other literary Journals.  She is working on a memoir called The Silent  Read more of her work online at New Millennium Writings.