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Melanie Hyo-In Han is a Korean-African poet, educator, and editor completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Surrey, funded by the Vice Chancellor's Studentship Award. She is the author of four poetry collections — Passing Notes in Secret (boats against the current, 2025), Abecedarian: Banff, Canada (kith books, 2025), My Dear Yeast (Milk & Cake Press, 2023), and Sandpaper Tongue, Parchment Lips (Finishing Line Press, 2021) — as well as the translator of several Spanish poetry collections.
Her work has been supported by fellowships from Sundress Academy for the Arts, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Gladstone's Library, the Kees Eijrond Foundation, and The Society of Authors, and she has received awards from The International Human Rights Festival, The Lyric Magazine, and elsewhere.
Melanie brings extensive editorial experience to her work with writers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Flora Fiction Literary Magazine and the Two Languages Prize Editor at Gasher Press, where she selects and edits poetry manuscripts for publication. She has also worked as a copyeditor and proofreader for the ERA Journal. Her own peer-reviewed journal articles have appeared in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Enthymema, and the International Journal of Bilingualism.
As a practising poet and an academic, Melanie is interested in writing that crosses cultural, linguistic, and formal boundaries. Her research and creative work focus on multilingual and experimental poetics, fragmented form, and questions of identity and migration. She currently teaches undergraduate literature and creative writing seminars at the University of Surrey, and has designed and delivered workshops for Writing Workshops, The Poetry Lab, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. She is a Fellow of Advance HE and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.