Literary Firsts

Melissa Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press, 2010), and her work has been widely anthologized and appeared in publications including Glamour, Salon, Dissent, The Southeast Review, New York Times, Bitch Magazine, The Rumpus, Drunken Boat, Hunger Mountain, and The Chronicle of Higher Education Review. She has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, CNN’s Dr. Drew, Anderson Cooper’s daytime show, New York magazine, and elsewhere. A 2010 & 2011 MacDowell Colony fellow, and 2012 Bread Loaf fellow, she teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn.

Melissa is part of the March 9 AWP reading.