Melanie Hope is an African American lesbian poet, writer, filmmaker and playwright living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
Her written work can be found in publications and anthologies such as The Key To Everything, The Paris Review, Role Call and Essence Magazine.
In her free time she also enjoys spending time with her family, playing sports, and crafting with textiles and visual art.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Non-Fiction:
Afrekete
An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing
Edited by Catherine E. McKinley & L. Joyce DeLaney
1995, Doubleday
ISBN: 0-385-47355-9
p. 255, Dare
Poetry:
The Key To Everything
Classic Lesbian Love Poems
Edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
1995, St. Martin’s Press
ISBN: 0-312-11842-2
p. 28, Inside Your Silent Arms
Chapbook
Sweet Seeds
Selected Poems
2007
Sinister Wisdom 47
Tellin’ It Like It Tis’
Summer/Fall 1992
ISSN: 0196-1853
p. 110, The Weaver
Role Call
A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art
Edited by Tony Medina, Samiya A. Bashir and Quraysh Ali Lansana
2002, Third World Press
ISBN: 0-88378-238-3
p. 72, The Zoo
p. 207, That Midnight Train to Georgia
p. 429, Labor Poem #2
IX Cave Canem Anthology 2004
Cave Canem
p. 35, Lita and the Swan
“My Bones, Yo Ammunition”
Poetry as Memoir
Cave Canem Workshop by Patricia Smith
Fall 2001
Invisible Visitors Beneath the Surface
Sixth Grade
VI Cave Canem Anthology 2001
Cave Canem
p. 49, On Teaching My Daughter to Climb Trees
The Caribbean Writer
Vol. 5, 1991
ISSN: 0893-1550
p.44, The Marrow of Bone
The Paris Review, 148
Fall 1998
ISSN:0031-2037
p.137, Sixth Grade
Queer Dog
homo/pup/poetry
Edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
1997, Cleis Press
ISBN: 1-57344-071-X
P.89, Lucky
Beyond The Frontier
African-American Poetry for the 21st Century
Edited by: E. Ethelbert Miller
2002, Black Classic Press
ISBN: 1-57478-017-4
p.319, Our Mothers
p.472, Praise the Daughter
The Arc of Love
An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems
Edited by Clare Coss
1996, Scribner
ISBN:0-684-81446-3
p.66, The Day Muni Walked In
p.131, Lesbian Bed Day
p.212, Ashes
The World In Us
Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave
Edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou
2000, St. Martin’s Press
ISBN:0-312-20943-6
p.138, Sixth Grade, Bare Floors
p.139, Only Days
p.141, INRI
p.142, Sacrifice