Melissa Stein has been chosen as the winner of the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize by this year’s judge Mark Doty for her manuscript Rough Honey.
Melissa Stein’s poems have appeared in Southern Review, New England Review, Best New Poets 2009, North American Review, Indiana Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received residency fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Djerassi Foundation. She is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.
