Name: Melanie Cole
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Mature
Bio: Melanie Cole writes from Tacoma, WA in the Pacific Northwest. Though she never studied writing, Melanie decided she had something to say and began writing about serious mental illness, incarceration, and police violence in Tacoma and beyond in 2024.
Most notably, she has been published in multiple issues of Grit City Magazine, but has also been published in the Tacoma News Tribune and has multiple published pieces on The Mighty. Ocean Songs is Melanie’s first book of poetry, which she took up after a failed memoir.
Maybe one day she will get back to that memoir, but for now, the poems keep coming. She is scheduled to release her second book of poetry God Bless The Bottom Feeders in May 2025.
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