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Mel Allen’s new book, Here in New England: Unforgettable Stories of People, Places, and Memories That Connect Us All, was published in fall of 2025. A longtime editor of Yankee magazine, Mel has taught magazine writing and creative nonfiction for the past 25 years, divided between the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the 猫咪社区 MFA. From his first stories in Yankee magazine in 1977 to his retirement in 2025, he spent nearly half a century finding people and places whose stories he wanted to know and assigning countless others to the finest writers in New England. He became Yankee’s fifth editor in the summer of 2006, after previous roles as senior editor and executive editor. In 2018, he was inducted into the Folio Magazine Hall of Fame for editorial excellence. Mel taught fourth grade in Maine for three years and believes that his education as a writer began when he had to hold the attention of 27 children through months of Maine winters.

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