About
Melissa Lee-Houghton is a poet, fiction writer and essayist whose three poetry collections are published by Penned in the Margins.
Sunshine is her third collection and features a poem shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
She was announced as a Next Generation Poet in 2014.
Her short fiction won a Northern Writers’ Award in 2016 and has been broadcast on BBC Radio Four.
Her poetry has been published in Granta and The Guardian Review.
She has read at Jaipur Literature Festival and Kolkata Lit Meet and will read at Cheltenham Literature Festival, Manchester Literature Festival and Durham Book Festival this year.
Listen to, and read, some of Melissa's work on the Poetry Book Society website.
REQUEST AN INTRODUCTION