Shiver me timbers and gees Louise, you want to know about Melanie A. Stinson? Well, that might be a tall order as she does so many things. Writing – dancing – art – bodywork – blogging.

Melanie writes fiction and screenplays and can be found on Twitter (where she’s known as a “conversationalist”) contributing her point of view on a variety of subjects. She also blogs. Her blog subjects may include her insights on what’s happening on earth, in the world, Reiki, CCT, and dance analysis for Dancing with the Stars or some other dance craft or choreographic/performance commentary.

DANCE: One of the first dance minors at Bowling Green State University, Melanie danced professionally, choreographed and taught ballet, modern dance and creative arts/movement (Laban Effort-Shape). She lived in New York City for 20 years, studied dance education at NYU and enjoyed more involvement with ballet and dance analysis as a staff member writer editor and later as a freelance contributing editor for New York City Ballet, as well as through an internship with American Ballet Theatre II. Melanie is delighted to have found a new connection to dance – as a ballroom dancer at The Ballroom Company in Maumee. With new insights from her ballroom dancing, she wants to support dancers and choreographers worldwide.

SCREENPLAYS. Melanie is a 2010 quarterfinalist in the Fade In Screenwriting Competition. She often writes dramas and favors dance topics or uses movement in some way in her stories. In previous years she has been quarterfinalist multiple times in the Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition. She studied creative writing under the late Fred Eckman while in high school at Bowling Green State University where she was first enchanted by a guy who wore a cape to class. She tends to favor urban fantasy and drama.

Melanie continued growing her writing in college and through writers conferences. Driven to be skilled in the craft of screenwriting, she studied screenwriting with John Truby, Robert McKee and others and belongs to the Triggerstreet community.

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As aplace4us online, besides her tweets on many subjects, Melanie has a practice of CCT Reiki, and complementary or alternative healing for stress relief. A Reiki Master Teacher, she offers Reiki classes in Toledo and Bowling Green and gives distance sessions globally by private appointment and as a volunteer for the Distant Healing Network. She feels she’s a strange mix of scientist and spiritual intuitive, which influences some of her fiction and definitely her digital art and photography, as well as the fiber art she’s most known for. She also knows that CCT and Reiki can help performers.

After enjoying shiatsu and experiencing the all-encompassing nature of the energy modalities, she uses multiple forms of Reiki and Crystalline Consciousness Technique (CCT) though massage, dance, and her Rosen Method Bodywork/ Movement background continue to influence her work. To read more about that, click here

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CREDITS:

A long time nonfiction writer and editor, Melanie has written articles for several Bowling Green State University publications, and has been contributing editor for New York City Ballet News (on staff and freelance) and The Oak Leaf News & Program Guide of Wood County Park District. She has also written for The Chronicle of AHRC NYC and served as contributing editor for Northwest Ohio Writers Forum’s e-newsletter, NYU’s Dance Education Department and the Torrington School of Ballet/Nutmeg Ballet.

Melanie’s middle grade story, The Buzz Boy of Bradner, Ohio, can be found in the anthology, Stories and Poems We’re All Forum. Her story published in Highlights For Children in 2003 has enjoyed several reprints, which was exciting and made her wonder what it was about bullying that made this story what it was. She has self-published Symphony in C Dance Spirit Poems and a chapter book, The Middle Princess. More books are on the way, which Melanie hopes to connect to a mainstream publisher.

Melanie is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, American Pen Women, and Dance Writers on linkedin. She serves on the board of the Toledo Artists Club.

To find out more about Melanie or arrange a school visit or artist residency for writing, art, or dance, please click here

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