Regina O'Melveny is a writer, assemblage artist, and teacher. Her poetry and prose have been anthologized and widely published in liteary magazines such as The Jacaranda Review, Yellow Silk, Poetry/LA, The Sun, The LA Weekly, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, and The Wild Duck Review. In 1995 she won first place in the John Foster West National Poetry Award Contest, judged by Marge Piercy. She has been awarded writers' residency fellowships by the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in California and the Cummington Community of the Arts in Massachusetts. She lives in Rancho Palos Verdes, California