Catching the Send-Off Train

A work of imagination and heart, Melanie Faith's Catching the Send-Off Train traces the impacts war has on the family left behind. With the lightest of touches, Faith's poems tell intimate stories of separation, remembrance, and return. Each short vignette adds another layer to the narrative and to an understanding of her characters. The collection delivers the emotional accumulation of these well-rendered moments. Melanie Faith holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, NC. Her writing has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She is a writing tutor at a college prep. high school in Pennsylvania and an online creative writing instructor. Her poems, essays, and fiction have been published in the past year at Vermillion Literary Project, Linden Avenue, Aldrich Press, The New Writer, Foliate Oak, and Origami Poems Project, and her work is forthcoming from Star 82 Review and Words Dance (Summer 2013).