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Melissa Stein [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
San Francisco, CA
California US
Email: 
melissastein AT pacbell DOT net
Bio: 

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.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Philadelphia
Raised in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
Website: 
https://www.melissastein.com [2]
Prizes won: 

American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; Pushcart Prize; Redivider Beacon Prize; Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize; Barbara Bradley Award; Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize Contest; Robert Penn Warren Awards; Literal Latté Poetry Awards


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