Mel's poetry and essays have appeared in The California Quarterly, Coastlines, Midwest, Epos, San Marcos Review, Blue Mesa Review, Lummox and other journals and in the anthologies Poetry Los Angeles:I, Poets of Today: A New American Anthology, Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath Women in Metaphor: An Anthology of Poems Inspired by the Painter Stephen Linsteadt.