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Melanie Richards

She/Her

  • Senior Community Faculty

Credentials

  • Master of Fine Arts, Writing
    Goddard College
  • Bachelor of Arts, Engl Lang/Lit Gen
    University of California, Los Angeles

Recent and upcoming courses

Spring 2025

Summer 2025

Fall 2025

Awards & Honors:
Academy of American Poets Prize, Associated Writing Programs INTRO award, Loft Mentor Series Poetry, Loft Creative Nonfiction Award (twice), Gesell Award in Prose University of Minnesota, Gesell Award in Poetry University of Minnesota, Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Prize from Kalliope

Publications:

Poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction in Harvard Review, Shenandoah, 26 Minnesota Writers, 33 Minnesota Poets, Yankee, Minnesota Monthly, Passages North and elsewhere.