Melissa Weaver’s work has appeared in The Christian Century, Ekstasis Magazine, Bravery Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Anabaptist Witness, The Harrisonburg Citizen (editorials) and The Soil and the Seed Project (illustration). Her first chapbook, Welcome, Stranger: Poems of Making and Keeping Our Children (Finishing Line Press, 2021) explored the radical hospitality that is parenting. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her family, where she coordinates intergenerational faith formation for a small church and volunteers to cultivate networks of care at schools and with her neighbors. She is passionate about approaching mental health challenges with curiosity and compassion. You can follow her work on Instagram @melissaweaverpoet.
PRAISE:
“Melissa Weaver‘s A Fistful of Garnets is filled with sumptuous imagery that leaves readers yearning for more, filling out experiences we are sure we missed but were somehow saved for us. We are invited to feel with all our senses and vicariously live a life of observation and reflection. Sometimes dark, always visceral, the poetry’s beauty is born of pain but is nevertheless airy, dreamlike, imaginative, and vivacious, despite, or perhaps because of, the work’s insistent maturity and borne experience. The book is a true gem.”
–Dr. Molly O’Donnell, professor of English and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at James Madison University. Co-editor of the anthology, The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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