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Melissa Eleftherion

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Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn, she holds degrees from Brooklyn College, Mills College, and San Jose State University. They are the author of four poetry collections: field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), gutter rainbows (Querencia Press, 2024), Suture (Cooper Dillon, 2026), & Malocchia (White Stag, 2026), twelve chapbooks including abject sutures (above/ground press, 2024), & several books currently touring the rejection circuit. Her work has been widely published & featured in venues like Quarter after Eight, Sixth Finch, Entropy, & Barren Magazine. Melissa now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Branch Library, curates the L ...more

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Thanks so much to The Citron Review for nominating my poem “little fires in the body” for Best of the Net! Because I have a bad memory, I had to look up how many past nominations I have received & while I am not a person who wins these things, I have been nominated 3x for BOTN and 6x for the Pushcart. I joked with my mom that I am the Susan Lucci of Pushcarts (rly tho 6x isn’t a lot – there ar

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