To kick off Season 3, Plumesters Sam and Dawn are turning the tables on their fellow co-host, Melanie Unruh, and talking to her about writing novels, sticking with large projects, and the founding of Plume.
We're so excited to share this new season with you all!
CW: grief and abortion
Melanie Unruh has an MFA in fiction from the University of New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in and is forthcoming in The Meadow, Two Hawks Quarterly, The Boiler, New Ohio Review, Post Road, Sixfold, Philadelphia Stories, and Cutthroat, among others. She co-founded Plume: A Writer’s Companion, a community for women and non-binary writers, which has now branched out into Plume: A Writer's Podcast. At present, she’s working on a YA novel, a short story collection, and some weird poems about bones. When she’s not writing or teaching, she enjoys drinking a good cup of chai, listening to audiobooks, smashing the patriarchy, and spending time with her kids. Visit her website to learn more.