Oxeye Editing

Thoughtful, creative editing that cares about the shared habitats of poetry, art, plants and creatures, real & imagined.

Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs (Stockport Flats, 2013) and a Ringing (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Thermos, Spiral Orb, GUEST, The Volta, The Arcadia Project, and most recently shelf documents, a collection she also copyedited. She’s written poems for installations and as live scores for short films. She was a co-curator of the dance, music and poetry series APOSTROPHE and curated Impala, a reading series that took place in her grandmother’s car. She’s taught classes in woods & parks, as well as schools, hospitals and community centers. She holds Masters degrees in Education (Antioch) and Poetry (Iowa Writers’ Workshop). She thinks and dreams about antennae and giants.