Mela Blust is a moonchild, and has always had an affinity for the darkness. She is a trauma survivor, an artist, a mother, a wife, a daughter, an avid gardener, and blooming into so much more. She has been writing poetry since she was seven years old.
Mela is a Pushcart Prize and four time time Best of the Net nominee, and has appeared in various literary magazines and journals such as The Bitter Oleander, Burning House Press, Coffin Bell, Moonchild Magazine, Yes Poetry, The San Pedro River Review, Rust+Moth, Juked, The Connecticut River Review, The Nassau Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, The Santa Clara Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Collective Unrest, Isacoustic, Black Fox Literary Review, Triggerfish Critical Review, and many, many more.
Her debut poetry collection, Skeleton Parade, focused on trauma and healing, was published with Apep Publications,
and her second, full-length collection, They Found a Woman’s Body, centering on women, is available with Vegetarian Alcoholic Press.
Mela’s newest poetry collection, Men and Their Flowers, with poems deeply entwined with concepts of lust, sex, and love, is forthcoming with Blue Horse Press in fall 2023.
Mela is a contributing editor for Barren Magazine, and can be followed on Twitter.
Mela Blust 
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