Melanny Henson

Experienced college educator with specialized expertise in teaching and learning. Strengths include fostering discussion, asking open-ended questions, encouraging student performance, and creating a safe learning environment. Professional background in self-publishing and writing market success as well as extensive knowledge in traditional publishing pathways. MFA emphasis in fiction writing, with some published poetry as well.

• 2020, The Edvard Munch Tarot for Relationships, Red Orchid Publishing, Clear Lake, IA
• 2018, The Past Lives Workbook, Red Orchid Publishing, Clear Lake, IA
• 2018, The Art History Tarot for Past Lives, Red Orchid Publishing, Clear Lake, IA
• 2012, Remembrance, Sunstone Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT
• 2010, Death on the Ranch, Low Down and Coming On: A Feast of Delicious and Dangerous Poems about Pigs, Northfield, MN
• 2007, Broken Shoulders, Brown Paper, New York, NY
• 2006, The Impersonation of Becky Lindon, Scribendi, Logan, UT

• Licensed Teacher - State of Iowa

Redorchidpublishing.com is the website for my small publishing house. Currently, it is used to promote my own creative writing projects and books, primarily focused on the art of tarot. My business style is more eclectic, classic, and charming rather than dark or gothic.  My projects utilize art history to apply to and practice tarot, combining spiritual elements of classic Rider-Waite style tarot reading with the spiritual elements presented in powerful art masterpieces throughout history. I identify as Christian-Pagan, and my books and projects reflect a Christian theme as well as incorporating pagan traditions, much like that cusp in history when Christianity was first forming.