Melissa Barrett earned a BA from Wittenberg University and an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in 2012, and her poem set “Thigh Gap and Other Poems” won First Place in Narrative’s Sixth Annual Poetry Contest. Her collaborations with visual artist Pete Burkeet have been exhibited in film festivals in New York and Vancouver. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, and teaches at an urban public middle school.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Rhymes with Thigh Gap and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2014
- Two Poems, poetry, in Fall 2013
- Kicking Bear and Short Bull Give Their Testimony, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2011–2012