Melany “M.P.” Slaughter is a journalist, photographer, and poet residing in eastern Virginia with her fiancé and dog. She began writing poetry at a young age as a way to navigate the world around her. She was previously published in The Stylus, Randolph-Macon College’s literary magazine. In her free time, Slaughter enjoys reading, crocheting, and learning new things.

In her debut poetry collection, Until the Cardinals Carry Me Home, Ms. Slaughter lays bare the grief she suffered the first year after the tragic loss of her best friend. Read the story of Melany’s journey that was published in the Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal by reporter Cheyenne Fenton below.

Until the Cardinals Carry Me Home is now available here on our website, on Amazon, B&N online, many local bookstores. Local bookstores include The Nook in Gloucester, VA; The Book Nook of West Point, VA; and Turn the Page Bookshop in Williamsburg, VA.

You may contact Melany via email at melany.p.slaughter@gmail.com and you can follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/m.p.slaughter__poet/