About Melanie McCabe
Melanie McCabe is a writer of poems, essays, memoir, and most recently, fiction. She is a lifelong Virginian and was a high school English and creative writing teacher in Arlington for twenty-two years.
Her debut novel, Road Longer Than Memory, will be published by Oceanview Publishing on June 2, 2026.
Her forthcoming book of poems, All The Signs Were There, won the Longleaf Poetry Prize and will be out in the winter of 2026.
Her memoir, His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams, won the 2016 University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize and was published in the fall of 2017.
Previous books of poems include: The Night Divers (Terrapin Books), What The Neighbors Know (FutureCycle Press) and History of the Body (David Robert Books.)
Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Reader's Digest, Shenandoah, Cumberland River Review, Sweet, Forge Literary Magazine and elsewhere.
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