Melanie Almeder is a writer and professor of literature and creative writing. Her first book, On Dream Street, was a finalist for the Whitman Prize, and won the Editor’s Prize from Tupelo Press. Her second book of poems, At the Museum of Miracles, has placed finalist in several book contests and is under submission. Individual poems from both collections have been published in a range of journals, including, The Seneca Review, Poetry, 32 Poems, and the American Literary Review, among others. Her lyric essays about art have been included in exhibitions and exhibition books in Miami, New York, Ireland, and France.
