A Good Broom - Paperback

O'Melveny, Regina: - REGINA O'MELVENY is an artist and writer whose work has been published in literary magazines such as The Bellingham Review, The Sun, West Marin Review, and Barrow Street. Her poem, Fireflies, won the Conflux Press Nature Poetry Award, released as an artist's book designed by Tania Baban. She has published three chapbooks, Secret, New and other gods which won a prize from the Munster International Literary Centre in Ireland. Full-length poetry books include Blue Wolves winner of the Bright Hill Press award and The Shape of Emptiness released by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. Her novel, The Book of Madness and Cures, published by Little, Brown and Company was listed as one of the six best historical novels of the year by NPR when it was released. Her second novel The Sea-Cure is forthcoming in 2026 from Running Wild Press. She tends a coastal sage scrub garden for pollinators in Rancho Palos Verdes.