Melanie Houle is a physician and former jeweler. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and The Raintown Review's first featured poet. Her poetry also appears in The Lyric, California Quarterly, Mobius, The Aurorean, The Barefoot Muse,The HyperTexts, Contemporary Rhyme, Shatter Colors, Innisfree Poetry Journal,The Centrifugal Eye, Lucid Rhythms, Journal of the American Medical Association and others.