Melissa Tuckey is a poet, writer, translator and literary activist living in Ithaca, New York. She is author of Tenuous Chapel a book of poems selected by poet Charles Simic for ABZ First Book Prize (forthcoming March 2013); and Rope as Witness, a chapbook published by Pudding House Press. In addition, she's a co-translator (with Chun Ye and Phillipe et Fiona Lorrain) of Dead Moon, a book of poems by Yang Zi, a contemporary Chinese poet.

Melissa Tuckey has a background in environmental activism, and is a co-founder (with Sarah Browning and others) of Split This Rock, a national organization dedicated to poetry of provocation and witness.