About Melissa Melissa Hansen was born in Los Angeles in 1976. The first born of a gang of five, she wrote her first poem at the age of six. By day, Melissa is an unassuming library technical assistant, but when the sun goes down, this dynamic defender of the Dewey Decimal System lays down delicious lines of truth and beauty, and occasional smut, which has been published in the nationally renown website of erotica, Ruthie's Club. Her poetry has appeared on the pages of Zygote in my Coffee, Cherry Bleeds, Leaf Press, Kill Poet, Copious Magazine, The Foundation for Public Poetry, Epic Rites, Outsider Writers and deComp, among others (but not poetry.com, that's some other Melissa Hansen). She's been featured at live readings such as Nuclear Winter Poetry at Beyond Baroque, Acker's Dangerous Daughters for Cherry Bleeds, Drinks with Tony on Pirate Cat Radio, and the Rob and Jack America Show on BlogTalk Radio. To know her is to love her, and to read her work is to have your mind's eye punched out with the lead velvet strength of her words. Melissa is the author of little beasts, a poetry collection, and her machine, a fiction collection. She currently lives in Southern California. |
