Returns: Author Spotlight â Melanie Dennis Unrau
June 30, 2021
Melanie Dennis Unrau is a white settler of mixed European descent living on Treaty One territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Melanie is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and an instructor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. Her current research on Canadian petropoetics expands on her dissertation on Canadian oil-worker poetry. Melanie is the author of
Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems (The Musesâ Company, 2013), a co-editor of
Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat (Palgrave, 2014), and a former co-editor of