Melissa Balmain

Show BioHide BioMelissa Balmain edits Light, America's only journal of comic verse, and teaches humor writing, poetry writing, and journalism in upstate New York. Her work has appeared in The American Bystander, The New Yorker, The New York Times, McSweeney's, The Satirist, and other magazines and newspapers. Her comic poetry collection Walking In On People (winner of the Able Muse Book Award) is often mistaken by online shoppers for some kind of porn. Twitter handle: @MelissaBalmain