About Me

 Heather Smith Meloche is a Pushcart-nominated poet and writer whose work has appeared in Spider, Poet Hunger X, Open Minds Quarterly, Taylor Mali’s Poetry By Chance anthology, Dead Girls Walking anthology by Wicked Shadow Press, and Young Adult Review Network (YARN). Her poetry chapbook, The Balance of Bones Against Dirt, was shortlisted for the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions' 2023 First Chapbook Contest. She has placed twice in the children’s/YA category of the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition and won first place for Hunger Mountain’s Katherine Paterson Prize in 2011 for a short story in verse. Penguin Putnam released her debut novel, Ripple, a contemporary young adult novel, in September 2016. When she’s not writing, she’s either reading, exercising, or teaching English as a Second at her local community college. She lives in Michigan with her husband and two boys.