FaithBio

The Honey Land Review
Spring 2009
Volume 1, Issue 2

M

elanie Faith

is an author,

photographer

,

and

educator who

holds

an

MFA in Poetry from

Queens

University of Charlotte,

NC

(2007).

Several

of her landscape and architectural

photographs

will be

published in the

Spring

2009 issue of

Newport Review

and

were recently

chosen as part

of the

Newport

Review's

art show

reading in Rhode Island. Her

photography has

also appeared in

Six Little Things

,

Heavy

Glow,

Siren

,

The Sylan

Echo

,

NOD

(University of

Calgary),and

Armada Quarterly

.

On her photographic process, she writes:

"Rural architecture, Americana, folk art, and the

pastoral intrigue

me

and inform my approach to

photography and writing. I like

the inherent

character of the shabby chic, the once-

abandoned,

and the

slightly-in-

disrepair. Visual

arts inspirations include

Dorothea Lange's

emotionally

expressive 1930s

portraits, Georgia

O'Keeffe's larger-than-life attention

to floral

detail, Ansel

Adam's wide open spaces, and

Bob

Krist's travel

images."

"I am also intrigued by the innate wonder and

beauty of

greenhouses,

farmers' fields, flowering

plants, and

arboretums.

Two of my favorite

photographic journeys were to the St. Louis

Botanical Gardens-- a

treasure of trellises and

greenery in the

inner city-- and Longwood

Gardens, near Philadelphia. I find

much

inspiration in my native

Pennsylania landscape,

but also

savor travels to new locales from time-

to-

time. I greatly look

forward to my summer

2009 travels through Italy,

Spain, and

France

and trust that

there will be much to inspire my

shutterbug

tendencies."

"Much of my art concerns both the

immediate

essence of

the

subject as well as the

echoing out

of theme from a

seemingly

simple

image. My training as a poet informs my visual

work as

both poetry and

photography seek to

encapsulate and

elevate a

white-hot moment

into

metaphor. One of my

longstanding

artistic

goals is to craft a manuscript

of my own

poems

and

coordinating photographs."

Her current poetry chapbook, Bright Burning

Fuse, was a finalist

in the

2008

Keyhold

Magazine

Chapbook

contest and was

published

by

Etched Press (www.etchedpress.com) in

December

2008. She may be

contacted at

writer@pa.net.

MELANIE FAITH