Melanie
Power
Melanie Power is the author of
Full Moon of Afraid and Craving
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022),
a collection of poems that centres on
place, girlhood and memory.
Her work has appeared widely in literary journals,
and has been shortlisted in various competitions
such as the Montreal International Poetry Prize,
poetry contests by The Malahat Review, Room,
and The Antigonish Review, as well as Arc Poetry’s
Poem of the Year. Her poems have also been
longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, and won
subTerrain’s Literary Award for Poetry.
From Newfoundland, she now lives in
Montreal/Tiohtià:ke.
