Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press, 2018) and Rough Honey, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Mark Doty. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, Southern Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the NEA, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Yaddo, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and her work has won awards from Redivider, Spoon River Poetry Review, Literal Latté, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, among others. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Melissa Stein
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998, 2000, 2014
More:
www.melissastein.com
Studios
Star
Melissa Stein worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…