Melanie Faith is an INFJ personality who enjoys doodling, old-school cameras, and spending time with fellow writers and her nieces.
Melanie is excited to teach university courses in both poetry and publishing this winter and a new class in August 2026 called Drawing Doodle Comics for Fun and Entertainment.
Imagination and possibility are her favorite sidekicks.
Amazing cover design by Jessica Bell.
Her latest poetry book/novel-in-verse, The Price of Breathing, will be published by Vine Leaves Press in September 2026 and is available for pre-order and reviewing this summer.
About the book: Meet Helen and Harry Crawley, a couple living in the American West in 1951. A letter arrives that will detonate their everyday routine and send Harry swiftly traveling East (to Helen’s protest) to visit his ailing first love, Flora, now a polio patient hospitalized in an iron lung.
What follows—in telegrams, free-verse poems, letters, and postcard text—is a timeless look at relationship dynamics, raising questions about the strength and meaning of first love long after the sweethearts have parted, the teamwork and ties that bind later-in-life bonds, and the challenges of living with chronic illness.
Also check out Does It Look Like Her? (February 2024) which explores 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.
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).
Just for fun: a self-portrait doodle.
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 .
Signed copies and other literary and photographic projects also available at Write Path Productions, Melanie’s Etsy page .