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Many thanks to Mark Danowsky & Louisa Schnaithmann and ONE ART: a journal of poetry for recently publishing five of my First Father chapbook manuscript poems. Find them here and on my Writing page.

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Melissa Joplin Higley has traveled internationally as a sound engineer with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble and Disney’s The Lion King North American Tour, and she has worked as a trumpet teacher, yoga teacher, editor, manuscript reader, and writing consultant. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and co-facilitates the Poetry Craft Collective. She currently lives in Mamaroneck, NY with her husband, son, and two tuxedo cats.

Photo courtesy of Nina Kruse