Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Harvard Review, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, and others. She has received awards and fellowships from the Pushcart Prize, NEA, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.