melissa christine goodrum first journeyed to New York City from Cambridge, Ma in 2004 to obtain a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing-Poetry from Brooklyn College. Nearly seventeen years later, her poetry can be found in The New York Quarterly, The Torch, The Tiny, Rhapsoidia, Cusp, canwehaveourballback?, Transmission, a harpy flies down (a chapbook by Other Rooms Press), Suitcase for Chrysanthemums and The Bowery Women Poems (both anthologies). 

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She is committed to publishing and actively participating in the poetry community wherever she may be. She has enjoyed her various leadership roles over the years: Guest Editor of Other Rooms Press’ first print anthology: Ocellus Reseau, Co-Editor of The Brooklyn Review, Designer/Publisher/Editor of Cave Canem’s Fall 2010 and 2014 NYC Workshop Collections, “Writing Down the Music” and "Letters to the Future," Co-President of the Cambridge Poetry Awards, Administrative Director of Bowery Arts & Science and as recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston Award from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. 

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During the summer of 2016, the NEH funded her five-week adventure to the University of California in Davis to dissect the works of the political philosopher Hannah Arendt. The result was a collaborative multi-media eruption at the John Natsoulas Gallery, A Political Lacunae: Verb-ing Violence into Visual.

Her first full-length book of poetry, definitions uprising, was made available in 2013, thanks to NY Quarterly Books. Urbantgarde invited her to be one voice in a five-poet anthology titled Urgent Bards.  Bright Hill Press released an anthology, Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose interweaving her jazz-o-phile poetics in December, 2017. Most recently, great weather for MEDIA released her second full-length collection, something sweet & filled with blood in May of 2019.