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Melanie Craig-Hansford

 

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First name
Melanie
Last name
Craig-Hansford
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City
Hampton
 

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Biography
My name is Melanie Craig-Hansford and I live in Hampton, New Brunswick. I attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and have a BFA and a Bed. I taught high school art and was a teacher-librarian in Ontario for 27 years and retired in 2014.
I now live in Hampton, New Brunswick, I spend my time painting and writing.
Publications
Tonight We Sleep With the Window Open
Chapel Street Editions, Woodstock, NB
2023

Hope and Resilience in the Time of Covid
Bishop’s University Press
Edited by Rebecca Welton
Three poems
2021

This Wine into Water,
Edited by Lorna Crozier
Published by Wintergreen Studios Press, Godfrey, Ontario
One poem and the cover illustration
2018

Sound Me When I’m Done,
Edited by Lorna Crozier
Published by Wintergreen Studios Press, Godfrey Ontario.
One poem and the cover illustration.
Chapbook
2016

InWords Magazine Volume 15/Issue 3
Carleton University Press
Edited by Lise Rochefort
One poem
2016

Momma’s Prayer Flags
Edited by Lorna Crozier
Published by Wintergreen Studios Press, Godfrey, Ontario.
One poem and the cover illustration.
Chapbook
2015

Prayers for Women Who Can’t Pray
Published Wintergreen Studios Press,
Godfrey, Ontario
co author with Katharine Smithrim 2012

Editorial Columns,
The Kingston Whig-Standard,
Kingston, Ontario
2000--2011

Awards
Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick’s
Dawn Watson Memorial Award for Best Poem
2018, 2020, first and third prize 2023

Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick Mentorship Scholarship 2017
Genres
  • Essays
  • Non-Fiction
  • Poetry

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