Melissa Stein's poetry collection Rough Honey won the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Mark Doty, and was published by American Poetry Review in association with Copper Canyon Press. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, New England Review, Best New Poets 2009, Harvard Review, North American Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received residency fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Djerassi Foundation, and her work has won awards from Spoon River Poetry Review, Literal Latte, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, among others. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis, and is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.

Other poems by Melissa Stein in Verse Daily:
January 17, 2017:   "Zero" "Papercut contracts the whole world..."
January 6, 2011:   "Dictator" "The quail are back: the big quail..."
November 16, 2010:   "Halo" "A swirl of it: a stain, like cinnamon..."
June 22, 2006:   "Trouble." " Trouble on the prairie..."

Books by Melissa Stein:

Other poems on the web by Melissa Stein:
"Polar Vortex"
Two poems
"Jigsaw"
Three poems
"Racetrack"
"Dictator"
"Flower"
"Olives, Bread, Honey, and Salt"
"How I"
Two poems
Five poems

Melissa Stein's Website.

Melissa Stein According to Wikipedia.

Melissa Stein on Twitter.

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