Visiting Writers Series: Melissa Faliveno

Listen to Melissa Faliveno give a master class on memory and the speculative in creative nonfiction from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Faculty Parlors in Main Building and read from her essay collection “Tomboyland” from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Art Exhibit Room of Macmillan Hall. “Tomboyland” was 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, Literary Hub, Brooklyn Rail, Autostraddle, and the Millions, among others. The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, she is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and on the MFA faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.