Melanie Tafejian is a poet and educator from the Pacific Northwest.

 

Melanie's work has appeared on Indiana Public Radio and in, or forthcoming in, journals such as Four Way Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Northwest, and Southern Indiana Review. Her first book manuscript was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Alice James First Book Prize. She was a runner-up for the Missouri Review Editor's Prize and was a finalist for both the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize and the Southern Humanities Review Auburn Witness Prize. Melanie serves on the editorial staff for The Raleigh Review and received an MFA from North Carolina State University. She has taught classes at North Carolina State University and through the Redbud Writing Project. She lives in Washington State, where she teaches writing at community colleges.