Lynn Melnick is the author of the poetry collections
Landscape with Sex and Violence and
If I Should Say I Have Hope. Her poetry has appeared in
APR, The New Republic, the
New Yorker, the
Paris Review, Poetry, and
A Public Space, and her essays have appeared in
LA Review of Books, Poetry Daily, and the anthology
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. A former fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, she also teaches poetry at Columbia University and the 92Y. Visit her website at
www.lynnmelnick.com.