“Andromeda”
(on League of Canadian Poets)

“Ode to the ½ Moon,” “The Real Pleiades,”
and “the stone”
(on Poetry in Canada)

Book

Full Moon of Afraid and Craving
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022)

“Heartbreaking and hilarious, this is an impressively accomplished first book, wise beyond its years.”
- Stephanie Bolster, author of
A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth

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“Power’s poems are beautiful little slices of the past […].
A strong debut.”
- Alison Manley, The Miramichi Review

“[There] is an incantatory power in many of these poems … her lines sing, regardless of their subject. […]
I’ll remember [this book] for Melanie Power’s endearing candour, wise self-effacement, and for the subtle music.”
- David B. Hickey, The Antigonish Review

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“Like Aubrey Plaza’s acting – you’ll never know if she really means what she says. But that’s half the fun. The other half is exquisite craft. From odes to processed food to a birthday party attended by past selves, it’s OK to let the easy reading fool you – in no time you’ll be craving more, buying a six-pack of Vachon’s ½ Moon just because of poetry.”
- Carlos A. Pitella, AELAQ’s Summer Read Recommendations

Publications

Prairie Fire:
“The moon is mother of us all”
(forthcoming, 2026)

Poetry Ireland Review:
“Metamorphosis of a 14-Year-Old Girl”
(forthcoming, Issue 146, edited by Stephen Sexton, 2025)

Arc Poetry Magazine:
“How Poems Work: Sue Sinclair’s ‘Hey Nonny Nonny’” (Issue 103, 2024)

Other work in The Malahat Review, Grain, Arc, Room,
subTerrain, The Antigonish Review, Riddle Fence,
among others.

Critical writing in Maisonneuve,
The Fiddlehead, Arc, Canadian Literature,
Prairie Fire, and elsewhere.

Shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s
2023 Open Season Award (nonfiction)

Winner of subTerrain’s
2022 Lush Triumphant Literary Award (poetry)

Runner-up in Riddle Fence’s
2021 Poetry Contest

Honorable mention
in the 2021 Leon E. and Ann M. Pavlick Poetry Prize

Shortlisted for the 2020 Montreal International Poetry Prize

Finalist for The Malahat Review’s
2020 Far Horizons Award (poetry)

Shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s
2020 Poem of the Year Contest

Finalist for The Malahat Review’s
2020 Open Season Award (poetry)

Shortlisted for Room Magazine’s
2020 Poetry Contest

Longlisted for
the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize

3rd place in The Antigonish Review’s
2019 Great Blue Heron Contest