Melanie Janisse is a native of Windsor, Ontario where she retained memories of old docks jutting out into the Detroit River and strange underground drives to her father’s hometown of Detroit. Melanie began her education by leaving home early and wandering around the abandoned houses of inner-city Detroit, the quirky streets of Montreal and the intense forests of the Canadian West Coast. Along the way, she obtained degrees from Concordia University in Communication and Emily Carr in Visual Arts. Thirteen years in Toronto has produced an ouevre of work that includes: a book of poems (Guernica Editions), a regular literary column/ publication (Open Book Toronto/Open Book Ontario), a café (Zoots), clothing stores (Melanie’s Closet, Pineapple Kensington), a quirky old commercial building and a nearly completed MFA from OCAD U. Currently Melanie is residing in Windsor, Ontario/Detroit Michigan and is delighted to have completed work in this area that is being published in Bayou (University of New Orleans), The Windsor Review, Palimpsest and Black Moss Press.
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