Author Archives for Melanie Mitzner

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If you’re not a captain of industry or you don’t have celebrity status, then you might want to check out my Artists Picks, great moderately priced wines under $10. I’ll be reviewing a different wine in each post, describing the terroir, region and providing tasting notes.
The Douro Valley in Portugal is a spectacular landscape of […]

Melanie Mitzner

Melanie Mitzner is a writer and partner of www.thegroovymind.com, a hip eco-friendly online store specializing in green business and personal gifts. She's at work on her novel SEPTEMBER 10TH about a shell-shocked architect who disappears after 9/11. Her novel SLOW REVEAL was a finalist in the Heekin Foundation Fellowships. She received an Edward Albee Fellowship for her screenplay ZERO GRAVITY and was a finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships for her screenplay DODGE AND BURN. Her play PERSONAL EFFECTS received a fellowship from the M.E.T. Theater in New York. Her short fiction has been published in quarterlies, zines and anthologies. As a journalist, she has written articles for WINE SPECTATOR, HAMPTON COUNTRY, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, BROADCAST WEEK and MILLIMETER, among other publications and she lives in wine country on the East End of Long Island. She has partnered in a creative process blog at http://SubmergingArtists.blogspot.com