Melanie Figg is an award-winning poet and inspiring writing mentor and coach. Her collection of poems, Trace, won the Many Voices Project competition from New Rivers Press. Her long poem, “Leaving a Trace” won the 2018 Iron Horse Literary Review Trifecta and is issued as an e-single with lovely photographs. Her chapbook, Hurry, Love, was printed in standard and fine arts editions with paper artist Doug Abbott. Her poems, essays, and reviews have been published in dozens of literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Nimrod, Colorado Review and Conduit. 

Living in the DC metro area, Melanie teaches poetry at The Writer’s Center and in private homes and curates Literary Art Tours in DC galleries (a Washington Post Editor’s Pick). As a certified professional coach, she offers writing retreats and works one-on-one with writers to improve and submit their work, finish their manuscripts, tame their inner critics, create sustainable writing routines, and most of all--express themselves and enjoy their writing lives.