Melanie Siebert's first poetry collection, Deepwater Vee (McClelland & Stewart, 2010) was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry.

In 2020, she published Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health, a guide on mental health for teens and young adults featuring real-life stories, which won the Lane Anderson Award for best science writing for young readers in Canada, and was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.

Coming out in the Fall of 2024, is Siebert's documentary poem, Signal Infinities (McClelland & Stewart, 2024), that interrogates colonialism and environmental loss, and which is written out of a therapist’s practice.

Melanie Siebert is a youth and family counsellor in Victoria, British Columbia. She works with people to transform depression, anxiety, trauma, and inner conflict into meaning, purpose, and hope. She also specializes in suicide intervention and prevention. Melanie has a Master of Social Work and a Master of Fine Arts. According to the Robson Reading Series: "[Melanie Siebert's] poetry has been broadcast on CBC Radio and published in The Walrus, The Malahat Review, Event, and Prairie Fire. For more than ten years, she has worked as a guide on wilderness rivers across the north from Alaska to Baffin Island. Deepwater Vee travels remote northern rivers, as well as two of Canada's most threatened rivers, the Athabasca and the North Saskatchewan."

BOOKS

Deepwater Vee (McClelland & Stewart, 2010) $15.50 9780771080333

Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health (Orca, 2020) $24.95 9781459819115

Signal Infinities (McClelland & Stewart, August, 2024)

[BCBW 2024]