melanie henderson

Melanie Henderson, 4th-generation native of Washington, DC and graduate of Howard University with a dual degree in Spanish and English, earned an MFA from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA and an MBA with a focus in Organizational Development from Trinity University in Washington, DC. Her debut collection of poems, Elegies for New York Avenue, won of the 2011 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. A visual and literary artist and an alum of Voices Summer Writing Workshops (VONA), her poems have appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Drumvoices Revue, jubilat, Reverie, Torch, Tuesday; An Art Project, and The Washington Informer among others. She participated in Huong's Peace Mural Exhibition in Washington, DC (2008-2009), was selected as a feature reader for the 2009 Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series and as a recipient of the 2009 Larry Neal Writers Award (DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities). She is the enchanted mother of an unbelievably charming little boy.