Melissa Coleman (born 1969) is an American author, columnist, and writer best known as the author of ''This Life Is in Your Hands'', a childhood memoir exploring her iconic family's search for a sustainable lifestyle. Coleman was born in Brooksville, Maine to parents Sue and

Eliot Coleman Eliot Coleman (born 1938) is an American farmer, author, agricultural researcher and educator, and proponent of organic farming. He wrote ''The New Organic Grower''. He served for two years as Executive Director of the International Federation of ...

of the

Back-to-the-land movement A back-to-the-land movement is any of various agrarian movements across different historical periods. The common thread is a call for people to take up smallholding and to grow food from the land with an emphasis on a greater degree of self-suffic ...

of the 60s and 70s, and her parents have been referred to as disciples of Scott and Helen Nearing.Maine In Print: Most Recent, May July 2011
Maine State Library Coleman is a columnist for Maine and Maine Home and Design magazines, and serves on the board of the Telling Room, a

Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metropol ...

writing center for kids. Melissa lives in

Freeport, Maine Freeport is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 8,737 at the 2020 census. Once home to a prominent shipbuilding industry, timber operations, and farming, it is now known for its numerous outlet stores; Freeport ...

, with her twin daughters.

Bibliography

;Non-fiction *''This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone'' (2011)

References

External links

Official Site

Official Blog

(Official publisher web page)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coleman, Melissa 1969 births Living people American memoirists American columnists American women columnists American non-fiction environmental writers People from Brooksville, Maine People from Freeport, Maine American women memoirists