— Illustrated by Ron Barrett
A poetry chapbook from Melissa Balmain, from Humorist Books, available for purchase at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Foyles, and other online
and offline bookstores worldwide.
Full-length collection of original poetry from Melissa Balmain, now available for order from Able Muse Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Foyles, and other online
and offline bookstores worldwide.
Melissa Balmain is a writer, teacher, and recovering mime. She edits Light, America’s longest-running journal of light verse. She's the author of two full-length poetry collections: Walking in on People (Able Muse Press, 2014, chosen by X.J. Kennedy for the Able Muse Book Award) and Satan Talks to His Therapist (Paul Dry Books, fall 2023), and one shorter collection, The Witch Demands a Retraction: Fairy-Tale Reboots for Adults, illustrated by Ron Barrett (Humorist Books, 2021). Balmain's poems and prose have appeared in such places as The American Bystander, American Life in Poetry, Ecotone, The Hopkins Review, Lighten Up Online, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry Daily, Rattle, and The Washington Post. Poet Laureate Billy Collins has described her work as "an infectious, often hilarious blend of the sweet and the lethal, the charming and the acidic." Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten has called it "extremely irresponsible.”
