Regina O’Melveny is the author of The Book of Madness & Cures, published by Little, Brown and Company in April 2012. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Bellingham Review, rattapallax, The Sun, The LA Weekly, Solo and The Wild Duck Review. New work was recently released in the anthology, Beyond the Lyric Moment. Her awards include the John Foster West National Poetry Award Contest judged by Marge Piercy and the 2007 Conflux Press Poetry Award. Her manuscript, Blue Wolves, won the Bright Hill poetry book award. She has taught at The Palos Verdes Art Center, The South Coast Botanic Garden, and Marymount College. She attended the Community of Writers in 1992, 2002 and 2008.