1.2 featuring Melanie Flood and Sam Witt
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About the artists:

Sam Witt is the author of two poetry collections, Everlasting Quail (UPNE, 2001), winner of the Katherine Nason Bakeless Prize, and Sunflower Brother (Cleveland State University Press, 2006). He has taught at Harvard University, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and at Whitman College. Sam is currently looking for a publisher for his new manuscripts, "Occupation: Dreamland" and "Moonlight in the Body of the Lyre," while freelancing and living in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Sam was born in Wimbledon, England and grew up in North Carolina and Virginia. He studied at the University of Virginia and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and lived and worked as a freelance journalist in San Francisco, publishing in Computer World, the San Francisco Chronicle and Wired. His first book of poetry, Everlasting Quail, earned Sam a Fulbright Fellowship to live and write in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Sam has been published in Virginia Quarterly, Harvard Review, Georgia Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Fence, and New England Review, among other journals, and in the anthologies, The New Young American Poets and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. Last year, Sam served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Whitman College.

Melanie Flood is a photographer and the founder of Melanie Flood Projects, an artists' salon located in her Brooklyn residence devoted to exhibiting emerging talent.

As a student at the School of Visual Arts, Melanie was selected to participate in the prestigious Mentor Program, an honor that forged her relationship with artist/publisher Devon Dikeou of zingmagazine. After graduating, Melanie became Managing Editor at zing, curating and publishing several artists' projects -- notably, photographs by Todd Hido and a selection of texts by Jenny Holzer. In 2005, Melanie accepted the position of Photo Editor at The New York Observer, where she worked for three years. In June of 2008, she founded Melanie Flood Projects.

Melanie was born in Manhasset, New York in 1979. She has been passionate about photography since 1989, when she received her first camera, a Le Clic.

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