Melissa Fadul has been published in an array of anthologies & poetry magazines. Some of her poems have appeared in: Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem (Random House) We Will Not Be Silenced and This is What Love Looks Like and As the World Burns: Writers and Artists Reflect on a World Gone Mad. Negative Capability Press selected her poem, “Tattooist’s Needle, Jewish Museum” for honorable mention in their Spring contest. Melissa holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, an MA in secondary education from Queens College and a BA from New School University. She’s taught Advanced Placed Psychology, English literature and Poetry for 22 years at a high school in New York and is one of the founding English teachers. She lives in N.Y. with her wife & her other two loves: Linus & Izzy who run the household. Pulse is her first book.
Praise for Pulse:
From the first poem in Melissa Fadul’s remarkable Pulse, where a tattoo needle speaks of its shattering past during the Holocaust, to poems that express the way assault and lesbian desire commingled in memory, these poems are searing in their honesty about what it is to live fully in the truth of being a queer Jewish woman in America today. This is a brave book that risks everything to do as Adrienne Rich asserted: “When a woman tells the truth, she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.” And the truth Fadul tells, in poems crafted and profound and at times tender, speaks to all of us. What an audacious and brilliant debut!
—Sharon Dolin, author of Imperfect Present
