Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collection Rough Honey, winner of the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Best New Poets 2009, Southern Review, New England Review, Narrative Magazine, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. She is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.