Walter William Melnyk

Walter William Melnyk is a novelist and poet living in Chattanooga,Tennessee. His writings have emerged from a variety of traditions as he has made his own life journey. He was born in New York in 1947.

Melnyk's newest book is a novel titled "The Voyage of Eagna-MacDarach: A Spiritual Journey Through the Ogham": Eagna-MacDarach, sometimes known simply as MacDarach, or Eagna-MacDarach an Seachranai (Wisdom, Son of Oak, the Wanderer)  is a coracle builder in the fishing village of  Tra Li, for the fishermen up and down the bay of that name in far southwest Eire.  One evening, on a lonely foot-path above the Cliffs of Clare, he encounters an Otherworld visitor, the beautiful Eadon, wife of Ogma Sunface, poet of the Gods and inventor of the Ogham alphabet.  Eadon invites MacDarach to begin an Immram, a spiritual journey, among the blessed isles of the west, in which he will learn the mysteries of the Ogham, eventually arriving at Inis-Ban in the land of Moy Mell, the Pleasant Plan, Paradise of the Celts.  Finnlugh of Fenit, Keeper of the Crane-Bag of Manannan mac Lir, joins MacDarach on this voyage, along with seven other intrepid wanderers.  A mystical journey in the spirit of Brendan the Navigator, Bran macFebal, and Mael Duin.

Melnyk's other writings include two novels of Celtic legend, a translation of the English mystic, Julian of Norwich, and several volumes of poetry.