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.