Melinda Palacio
Melinda Palacio grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Santa Barbara and New Orleans. She holds an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. A 2007 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow and a 2009 poetry alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, she coedits Ink Byte Magazine and writes a column for online journal La Bloga . Her work has appeared in the Squaw Valley Review , Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire , Buffalo Carp , Latinos in...See more
Melinda Palacio grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Santa Barbara and New Orleans. She holds an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. A 2007 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow and a 2009 poetry alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, she coedits Ink Byte Magazine and writes a column for online journal La Bloga . Her work has appeared in the Squaw Valley Review , Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire , Buffalo Carp , Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature , Maple Leaf Rag III and IV: An Anthology of Poems , among many other publications. Melinda's poetry chapbook, Folsom Lockdown , won the 2009 Kulupi Press Sense of Place award. The author recently completed a full-length poetry manuscript, How Fire Is a Story, Waiting . See less
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