Congratulations to Melanie Dusseau (MFA '03)!

Melanie Dusseau's first collection of poems, The Body Tries Again, has been accepted for publication by Word Press of Cincinnati, Ohio. The book is due in 2009.

Here's Mel D contemplating her cover options:
"I'm trying to find out if I can reuse one of those pulp covers from old paperbacks: you know, a
scantily clad woman smoking a cigarette in a seedy alley with a dangerous stranger lurking behind her?
She rolls on the wrong side of town! She fell from grace in the big city! And I think it would be fun to
emblazon that title over a fun piece of pop?"

That's our Mel D! Congrats, girl!