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Melanie McGee Bianchi

About

Melanie McGee Bianchi is a journalist and fiction writer who has lived in Asheville, North Carolina, since 1992. She is the editor of two magazines, Asheville Made and Carolina Home + Garden, and is the author of the book The Ballad of Cherrystoke and Other Stories (Blackwater Press, 2022). Her most recent piece of fiction, the prizewinning story “Gertrude’s Favorite Pfeffernüsse,” was published in August 2024 in The Irish Times online.

Articles

Issue 123, Winter 2023

Orphan Girl

In a genre where spooky and ethereal are expected, her execution is neither. Instead it is thundery and suggestive. Here and now. Urgent.

By Melanie McGee Bianchi
Web Feature

Life in Asheville After Hurricane Helene

We are alive: deliriously, irritably alive.

By Melanie McGee Bianchi