The Craft of Writing Lives—Our Own and Others with Melissa Faliveno | Chippewa Valley Book Festival

Melissa Faliveno will present her debut essay collection, Tomboyland, named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, and Electric Literature, and recipient of a 2021 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from the Wisconsin Library Association. Faliveno will read from the collection and discuss the craft and process of writing our own lives and the lives of others. The reading and talk will be followed by a Q&A.

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About the Author

MELISSA FALIVENO is the author of the essay collection Tomboyland: Essays, named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, and Electric Literature, and recipient of a 2021 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her work has appeared in Esquire, Paris Review, Bitch, Lit Hub, and Brooklyn Rail, among others; received a notable selection in Best American Essays; and appears in the anthology Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic. The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, she has taught creative writing at Kenyon College, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and Sarah Lawrence College, where she earned an MFA. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Denison University and on the MFA faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Learn more about Melissa Faliveno at melissafaliveno.com.