Melissa Stein

Poet

San Francisco, CA
California US
Email: 
melissastein AT pacbell DOT net
Website: 
www.melissastein.com

Author's Bio

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, selected by Mark Doty. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Southern Review, New England Review, Harvard Review, and Best New Poets. She has received fellowships from the NEA, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Yaddo, and MacDowell and has won several awards, including a Pushcart Prize. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (Bloomsbury USA, 2014)
,
Best New Poets 2009 (University of Virginia Press, 2009)
,
Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press, 2004)
Books:
Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press, 2018)
,
Rough Honey (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
Journals:
32 Poems
,
Alaska Quarterly Review
,
American Literary Review
,
American Poetry Review
,
Barrow Street
,
Bellevue Literary Review
,
Blue Mesa Review
,
Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
,
Catamaran Literary Reader
,
Cimarron Review
,
Cincinnati Review
,
Crab Orchard Review
,
Drunken Boat
,
Faultline
,
Green Mountains Review
,
Greensboro Review
,
Gulf Coast
,
Gulf Stream
,
Harvard Review
,
Indiana Review
,
The Journal
,
Literal Latte
,
Many Mountains Moving
,
Mead: The Magazine of Literature & Libations
,
Memorious
,
Michigan Quarterly Review
,
Narrative Magazine
,
New England Review
,
Nimrod
,
Normal School
,
North American Review
,
Northwest Review
,
Painted Bride Quarterly
,
ploughshares
,
Poet Lore
,
River City Review
,
Room of One's Own
,
Seattle Review
,
Seneca Review
,
Slipstream
,
South Carolina Review
,
Southern Review
,
Spillway
,
Spoon River Poetry Review
,
Tin House
,
Washington Square Review
,
Yale Review
Prizes won: 

American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; Pushcart Prize; Redivider Beacon Prize; Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize; Barbara Bradley Award; Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize Contest; Robert Penn Warren Awards; Literal Latté Poetry Awards

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Philadelphia
Raised in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: May 26, 2018