about

Melanie Power is the Montreal-based author of Full Moon of Afraid and Craving (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022), a poetry collection that “looks with ardour and humour at what’s beloved and what’s hard to love, reminding us that sometimes those are the same things.”¹

Her work has appeared broadly in literary journals such as The Malahat Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, Southword Journal, and elsewhere.

Poems of hers have been shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest, The Montreal International Poetry Prize, Room’s Poetry Contest, The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award, and Riddle Fence’s Poetry Contest, as well as longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize.