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Melanie Brooks

Melanie Brooks, contributor to Fury, Women's Lived Experiences in the Trump Age

Melanie Brooks is the author of Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Creative Nonfiction, and other notable journals. She lives in NH and teaches writing at Northeastern University and Merrimack College in Massachusetts and Nashua Community College in New Hampshire. She is completing a memoir about living with the ten-year secret of her father’s HIV disease before his death in 1995. Learn more about her work at melaniebrooks.com.  

Pact Press is proud to include “The Biggest Hole Is Where the President’s Empathy Should Be,” by Melanie Brooks in our upcoming anthology, Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences in the Age of Trump.

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