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Melanie Brooks is a writer and college professor from Nashua, New Hampshire. Her first book, Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma is forthcoming with Beacon Press on February 7, 2017. She has published a number of essays on specific topics of illness and grief, particularly in connection to the loss of her father to AIDS in 1995, the subject of her memoir-in-progress. Her work has appeared in a number of publications including, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and Modern Loss. Most recently, She was awarded the Michael Steinberg Prize for Nonfiction in Solstice Literary Magazine’s annual contest.
