Short Bio
I'm putting this here primarily because this site is much better organized than my real life.

Melanie DuBose  advocates for equity in arts education and teaches filmmaking to teenagers in East LA. She is a Los Angeles Arts Activate Fellow and a graduate of the UCLA film school. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Nixes Mate Review, Neologism Poetry Journal,  Red Flag Poetry Express, antinarrative journal, Right Hand Pointing/One Sentence Poems, Ekphrastic Review, and  Contemporary Haibun.

Some ongoing projects include a series of poems about or related to authors whose writing feels as though it were written to me personally. It started as something I would do when I wasn't sure what to write, as a sort of doodling,  but it's gained momentum. I haven't yet shared any of those poems, we'll see.

I am also writing a novel and I have been for three years now. A writer I admire said that you should put your unfinished novel aside and read it again two years later. I inadvertently did that. I hadn't realized how much time had passed. I discovered I love my unfinished book and I am happily working on it. It's tentatively entitled, The People Who Love You.