Melanie Brooks

Melanie Brooks is the author of the memoir A Hard Silence: One daughter remaps family, grief, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all (Vine Leaves Press, 2023) and Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon Press, 2017). She teaches in the M.F.A. programs at Bay Path University and Western Connecticut State University. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast writing program and a Certificate in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. She's had numerous interviews and essays published in the The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, HuffPost, Psychology Today, Ms. Magazine, Yankee Magazine, and other notable publications. She lives in New Hampshire with my husband, two children (when they are home from university), and chocolate Lab.