about


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.

 

She is currently pursuing
an interdisciplinary PhD in oral history,
creative writing, and literature.