D. H. Melhem

D. H. Melhem (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet, novelist, and editor.

Life

She graduated from New York University cum laude, from City College with a master’s degree, and from City University of New York, with a doctoral degree in English and American literature. She is a lifelong resident of New York City, where her two children were born and raised.^[1]

Awards

• 1991 American Book Award

Works

Poetry

• New York Poems. Syracuse Unersity Press. 2005. ISBN 9780815608134. http://books.google.com/books?id=PlGQ5pYu_VoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=D.+H.+Melhem#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Conversation with a Stonemason. Ikon. 2003. ISBN 9780945368076. 
• Poems for You (P&Q Press, 2000)
• Of Country (CCC, 1998)
• Rest in love. Confrontation Magazine Press. 1995. ISBN 9780913057223. 

Novels

• Blight. Riverrun Press. 1995. ISBN 9780714542744. 
• Stigma & The Cave. Syracuse University Press. 2007. ISBN 9780815608820. http://books.google.com/books?id=q3pA2YhbqG8C&dq=D.+H.+Melhem&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=auudxamdRj&sig=UUuPq0yniX0rFXS8wjv5dQpqwCI&hl=en&ei=akkPS62TDdPslAeumpyxAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

Anthologies

• Hayan Charara, ed. Inclined to Speak. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 9781557288660. 
• Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, Ravi Shankar, ed (April 17, 2008). Language for a New Century. W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393332384. 
• Long Island Island Sounds (NSPS Press) ^[2]

Criticism

• Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice. University Press of Kentucky. 1988. ISBN 9780813101804. http://books.google.com/books?id=vJ8OYVXTX1kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=D.+H.+Melhem#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews. University Press of Kentucky. 1992. ISBN 9780813108070. http://books.google.com/books?id=V-khpeNr_tUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=D.+H.+Melhem#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.nyslittree.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/DB.PersonDetail/PersonPK/811.cfm
2. ^ http://www.gc.cuny.edu/alumni/notes.htm

External links

• "Author's website"

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