Melanie Dennis Unrau is a poet, editor, poetry scholar, and teacher from Winnipeg. She has a PhD from the University of Manitoba; her dissertation on poetry written by oil workers in Canada won local, national, and international awards. Her poetry collection Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems was nominated for two Manitoba Book Awards. Melanie is a former editor and poetry editor at Geez magazine and a former co-editor of The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada.