寄稿者

Melanie Brooks

Contributor

Melanie Brooks is the author of "A Hard Silence: One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All" (Vine Leaves Press, 2023) and "Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma" (Beacon Press, 2017). She teaches professional writing at Northeastern University and creative nonfiction in the MFA program at Bay Path University in Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast writing program and a Certificate of Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Psychology Today, Yankee Magazine, the Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, and other notable publications. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, two children (when they are home from college), and chocolate Lab.