Filed under:
Melissa Febos MFA '08 was a recent guest on the Memoir Nation podcast, discussing her latest book, The Dry Season. The episode explores solitude as a creatively regenerative space. The podcast, originally launched as Write-minded in 2018, focuses on memoir and personal writing, as well as industry trends and tips and resources for writers and authors.
Febos is the national bestselling author of five books, including Girlhood — winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, and The Dry Season. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, LAMBDA Literary, the Black Mountain Institute, the British Library, the Bogliasco Foundation, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Best American Essays, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Monmouth University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and is now a Professor at the University of Iowa.