Melodie Bolt writes poetry and contemporary fantasy and dark fiction. She earned an MFA in Writing from Pacific University in Portland, Oregon and an MA in Composition and Rhetoric from University of Michigan-Flint. Her poetry has appeared in magazines like Pasque Petals, Aperqus, Verse Wisconsin, and Yellow Medicine Review. Her fiction has been recently published in the anthologies Incarceration (Wolfsinger Publications, 2017), Hoofbeats: Flying with Magical Horses (CreateSpace Independent Publishing PLatform, 2016), and the magazine Witches and Pagans, (#31, 2015). She is currently working on a dark fiction novel set in Flint and President of the Flint Area Writers, a critique group that meets every other Friday in Flint.