Heather Smith Meloche

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Heather Smith Meloche

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BIO

 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.


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About Heather Smith Meloche

My MAIN Workspace

My main workspace, my study, is a nightmare for most people who walk in. I’d say it’s way too messy for public viewing, but I totally own that I’m a slob and tend to organize in piles. I weirdly know where to find something by which strata the object is within a pile.  

My other workspaces

If I find with the right earplugs, I can write anywhere. It’s like a Dr. Seuss story — “Oh, The Places I Write.” In the car. In a bar. On the rocks. Without socks. I’ve learned to write wherever life drags me to get the story done. 

My WRiting Rituals

 I always have coffee very close by when I write, and when the hours at my computer are getting longer, chocolate is a necessary reinforcement. But my most common writing staples are my Jack Russell/Chihuahua mix, Blitzen, and my super mutt mix, Ridley, who have dutifully laid next to me for thousands of pages of writing while I talk to them, talk to myself, and talk to my characters. They never judge.😉 


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