ABOUT

Melanie A. Stinson writes nonfiction, fiction, screenplays, plays, and poetry for children and adults, and her story, The Buzz Boy of Bradner, Ohio, was published in the Northwest Ohio Writers’ anthology at the end of 2007. Melanie has also published in Highlights For Children Magazine, Toledo’s Oddo Entertainment Guide, Ohio Parks & Recreation (OPRA) Magazine, several Bowling Green State University publications, and served as contributing editor and freelance editor/ writer for New York City Ballet for many years. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators.

Testimonial: August 15, 1986

“Thank you for the poem which has finally caught up with me. I like it very much and feel you’ve captured so much of the feeling of the piece.”

With best wishes,
Jerome Robbins

In order to wait the length of time it can take to be published through the publishing houses in the U.S. and abroad today, Melanie decided to self-publish a few of her older books. These books include: Symphony in C Dance Spirit Poems, The Middle Princess, and Hilarede Centipede: A Many Shoe Adventure. None of these books carry ISBN#s and must be purchased through the author or lulu.com.

Melanie has been a quarterfinalist in the Writers Network Fiction and Screenplay Competition for screenplays and novels, and an honorable mention winner in the children’s fiction category of the Writers Digest Annual Writing Contest.

In the late 1990s, Melanie worked on the independent screwball romantic comedy, Garden, written and directed by Dennis Conway, Bansheewail Productions, NJ. She served as creative/ casting consultant, A.D., and production coordinator, wrote additional dialogue, and created some of the graphics for the film. When someone dropped the ball and forgot to invite Susan Sarandon to join the cast, Melanie inherited the voiceover part of Helen, who appears in the film as a beautiful air freshner on the white walls of the laboratory. Making the film was a learning experience and a comedy in itself.

Melanie also enjoys being an extra on films and appeared as a member of the audience in the dance film, “Center Stage.” More recently, she played a juror in the drama, “Betty Anne Waters,” which filmed in Jackson, MI in February.

Melanie is a former contributing editor for the Wood County Park District’s Oak Leaf News and Program Guide, and former contributing e-newsletter editor for the Northwest Ohio Writers Forum. She holds a Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she combined Psychology, English, Dance, and Design.

After dancing professionally for a short time, Melanie pursued graduate studies at New York University in Dance Education and Creative Arts and has had a lifelong involvement with ballet, modern dance and Laban Effort-Shape. She currently practices several types of movement meditation including Katsugen, a gift given to her by Koji Yamamoto at Omega Institute in New York. Melanie has choreographed for WBGU-TV, Cassandra Ballet, NYU, BGSU, and her own small touring group.

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Melanie also creates wearable, fiber and digital art, all blessed with the good vibrations of Reiki and created within the crystalline system of Crystalline Consciousness Technique (CCT). Her wall hanging, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, won First Place in the 2008 Spectrum Friends of Fine Arts Gallery Exhibition, Mystic Flora and Fauna. Melanie combines her love of faerie, pottery and fiber art in fairy houses. As with all Melanie’s work, these homes are one of a kind.

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In addition to art and writing for adults, Melanie:

• has a limited practice of CCT, Reiki and physical, energy and spiritual therapies, which she calls restoratives or retreat experiences. She especially enjoys working with children and has developed art and writing to be used so that young people can have a more enjoyable experience in school. To find out more or arrange a school visit, or session, please click here

• Regeneration or Rejuvenation experiences or Rooms, Stations, and Corporate and Community Respite Spaces and experiences.
  

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Melanie studied at New York City’s Swedish Institute College of Massage & Allied Health Sciences and in 1993 became a New York State-licensed massage therapist, a license which has reciprocity in most states. After enjoying shiatsu and experiencing the all-encompassing nature of the energy modalities, however, she now exclusively practices energy modalities of Reiki and Crystalline Consciousness Technique in the new field of energy medicine. She has been a member of the Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals since 1994.

Please contact Melanie for more information and/or to set up individual and group activities or phone (distance) sessions.

Testimonial: April 2001

“This is absolutely WONDERFUL! You have remarkable talent. Your tenderness is very real, your voice polished.
The ’story’ is extraordinary but it’s not a story. It’s a novel…
Just wonderful work.”

Kelly Milner Halls