Oxeye Editing

Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs (Stockport Flats, 2013) and a ringing, (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Lana Turner, Spiral Orb, GUEST, The Volta, and The Arcadia Project. Recent editing projects include the Crocosmic Tarot Deck by Leon Finley and Heide Hinrichs' shelf documents: art library as practice and Art on Campus. Melanie 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 sometimes teaches experimental and experiential classes, such as Animals Writing, and The Emotional Lives of Vowels, meant to invoke an altered sense of scale. Classes are usually taught in zoos & parks. She studied poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and performance at Listaháskóli Íslands. She thinks and dreams about antennae and giants.