Melanie Faith

Melanie Faith enjoys old-school film cameras, quotes, that new-shoes feeling, thoughtfulness, ASMR videos about maps and books, and spending time with fellow writers and her nieces Her latest narrative poetry collection, Does It Look Like Her? (2024), is her first foray into self-publishing. The poems follow Alix, age 47, who briefly meets an accomplished artist at a coworker’s dinner party and subsequently sits for a painting that becomes well-known. Alix then embarks on her own painting and teaching journeys while starting her life over with her young son. Her latest books on writing craft (published by Vine Leaves Press in 2022) are: From Promising to Published: A Multi-Genre, Insider’s Guide to the Publication Process, Writing It Real: Crafting a Reference Book that Sells, and Writing It Real: Creating an Online Creative-Writing Class for Fun and Profit. Check out her other inspired books on creativity: In a Flash!, Poetry Power, and Photography for Writers (also Vine Leaves Press). Her poetry has been set to opera, and her fine-arts photography has appeared on book covers and in juried shows .