Melanie Pappadis Faranello received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in New York, and her BA in English and creative writing from University of Colorado, Boulder. She spent time studying in Nepal, as well as teaching English in Cuenca, Ecuador. She has worked as a teaching artist in the schools as well as an adjunct professor in a variety of colleges. She is the previous curator, founder, and co-host of Sunday Salon Chicago--the Chicago branch of NYC’s Sunday Salon reading series. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as well as received a variety of mentions including winner of The New School’s Chapbook Award Series in Fiction, and a top twenty-five winner in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest. Her novel manuscript was a finalist in Sarabande Books’ Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction, and a semi-finalist in The Dana Awards for The Novel. She was a contributor at Bread Loaf Writer's Conference in 2010. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Literary Mama, Emerge Literary Journal, among others. Originally from Chicago, she currently lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons.

Searching Ana (New School Chapbook Series, 2003)

Emerge Literary Journal, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Literary Mama, Postcard Shorts