Melissa Barrett

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Melissa Barrett Burkeet is the author of MOON ON ROAM (Gold Wake Press, 2019), a collection of poems that was a finalist for more than twenty book prizes. Her poems and essays have been published in BOMB, Crazyhorse, Harvard Review, jubilat, and Best American Poetry. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her writing has been recognized by the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes, The Poetry Society (UK), The Ohio Arts Council, Tin House's Summer Workshop, Gulf Coast, and The Iowa Review. She lives with her family in Cleveland, Ohio.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Poetry 2015

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