Melanie Petrandis has been writing poems since she was a child, and over the past 10 years has been inspired to write about her process of finding peace within her life and self-acceptance. This will be her first publication. She lives in Florida and recently joined the Tallahassee Writer’s Association and is looking forward to sharing her work and receiving feedback. She has her Masters in Psychology and works as a counselor.

Within, Toxic, In the Wild, Where Heaven Meets the Earth, and Beautiful You, Volume 6, Issue 1