Melissa Mack is a poet and essayist. Her full-length poetry collection, The Next Crystal Text, was selected by judges Melissa Buzzeo, Mg Roberts, and Divya Victor in 2018 for the Timeless, Infinite Light first manuscript award, and now lives at Nightboat. Other work has appeared in journals such as the Berkeley Poetry Review, Hot Pink, Elderly, and The Capilano Review; in anthologies such as The Town: An Anthology of Oakland Poets (Nomadic Press, 2023); in a chapbook, Includes All Strangers (Hooke Press, 2013); and at many public readings, talks, and performances. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.