Melanie Faith enjoys old-school film cameras, quotes, that new-shoes feeling, and spending time with fellow writers and her nieces. 

Her latest narrative poetry collection, Does It Look Like Her? (February 2024), follows Alix, a forty-something artist, new educator, and mom, and the famous painting she sits for. The poems explore what it means to pursue artistic passion, the personal meanings we overlay onto art and artists in a society not conducive to art-making, ambition at midlife, and the indirect route to so-called overnight success.

Melanie is excited to teach a university poetry course in January to March. She is also looking forward to teaching From Better to Best: Writing Fictional Beginnings that Hook Readers (beginning January 24, 2025) and Writing the Mythic: Penning Prose Exploring Myths, Fairytales, and/or Folktales (beginning April 18, 2025).

Her latest books on craft are: From Promising to Published: A Multi-Genre, Insider’s Guide to the Publication Process (May 2022), Writing It Real: Crafting a Reference Book that Sells (April 2022 Vine Leaves Press), and Writing It Real: Creating an Online Creative-Writing Class for Fun and Profit (February 2022 Vine Leaves Press). Check out her other books on creativity for authors: In a Flash!, Poetry Power, and Photography for Writers.

Her poetry has been set to opera, and her fine-arts photography has appeared on book covers and in juried shows .

She’s an INFJ personality type and a fan of reading and quiet ASMR videos about maps and books before sleep.

She is also the author of a series of narrative poems, set during WWII, called Catching the Send-off Train (published by Wordrunner eChapbooks), as well as a Regency novella under a nom de plume (Untreed Reads), entitled Her Humble Admirer.

Imagination and possibility are her favorite sidekicks.

Signed copies and other literary and photographic projects also available at Write Path Productions, Melanie’s Etsy page .