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Melissa Febos

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Melissa Febos is an American writer and professor. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Whip Smart (2010) and the essay collections Abandon Me (2017) and Girlhood (2021).

Early life and education

Febos grew up in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Her father was a sea captain, and her mother a therapist. She left home at 16 after passing the GED, moved to Boston, and worked at an assortment of jobs including as a boatyard hand and as a chambermaid. She attended night courses at Harvard Extension School, then enrolled in The New School and moved to New York City in August 1999. She later earned an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College.

Career

Febos is the author of Whip Smart (St Martin’s Press 2010), a memoir of her work as a professional dominatrix while she was studying at The New School.

Her second book, the lyric essay collection Abandon Me, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing on February 28, 2017. Abandon Me was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist and a Publishing Triangle Award finalist, and one of the best reviewed books of 2017. Her third book and second essay collection, Girlhood, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing on March 30, 2021. It was a national bestseller. Describing Girlhood, The New York Times wrote, “The aim of this book, though, is not simply to tell about her own life, but to listen to the pulses of many others’…This solidarity puts “Girlhood” in a feminist canon that includes Febos’s idol, Adrienne Rich, and Maggie Nelson’s theory-minded masterpieces: smart, radical company, and not ordinary at all.” A craft book, Body Work, was published by Catapult in 2022.

Febos was the co-curator, with Rebecca Keith, of the monthly Mixer Reading and Music series on the Lower East Side for ten years. A four-time MacDowell Colony fellow, she has received fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her essays have won awards from Prairie Schooner and StoryQuarterly, and for five years she was on the Board of Directors of Vida: Women in Literary Arts. Febos has contributed to publications such as The New York Times, The Paris Review, Salon, Bomb, Hunger Mountain, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Granta, Post Road, Dissent, Vogue, The Believer, The Sewanee Review, Bitch Magazine and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Febos has taught at SUNY Purchase College, the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Utica College. Until 2020, she was an Associate Professor and MFA Director at Monmouth University. Febos currently works as a Full Professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program.

Media

Whip Smart resulted in a front-page appearance on the cover of the New York Post, a feature interview on NPR’s radio program Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a guest appearance on Anderson Cooper’s talk show, and an appearance on CNN’s Dr. Drew show.

Abandon Me was one of the best reviewed essay collections of 2017 and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. The New Yorker called it “mesmerizing” and wrote that “the sheer fearlessness of the narrative is captivating.”

Girlhood was featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC, and on multiple NPR programs. Girlhood won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Her fourth book, Body Work, was a national bestseller and Los Angeles Times Bestseller.

Personal life

Febos identifies as queer. She lives in Iowa with her wife, the poet Donika Kelly.

She spoke at House of SpeakEasy’s Seriously Entertaining program about her childhood and rethinking often-normalized experiences of bullying.

Awards

2010 MacDowell Colony Fellowship

2011 MacDowell Colony Fellowship

2012 Bread Loaf Writers Conference Fellowship

2013 The Prairie Schooner Creative Nonfiction Prize

2013 The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund fellowship

2014 Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency

2014 A Story Quarterly Essay Prize

2014 MacDowell Colony Fellowship

2015 The Center for Women Writers Creative Nonfiction Prize

2015 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space residency

2015 Vermont Studio Center fellowship

2017 Ragdale Residency

2018 The Sarah Verdone Writing Award, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist in Memoir/Biography

2018 The Publishing Triangle finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

2018 Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction

2018 BAU Institute fellowship at The Camargo Foundation

2018 Vermont Studio Center fellowship

2020 MacDowell Colony Fellowship

2021 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism

2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship

2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction

Bibliography

Whip Smart. New York, New York: St. Martin’s Press. 2010. ISBN 9780312583781.

Abandon Me. New York, New York: Bloomsbury USA. 2017. ISBN 9781632866585.

Girlhood. New York, New York: Bloomsbury USA. 2021. ISBN 9781635572520.

Body Work. New York, New York: Catapult Publishing. 2022. ISBN 9781646220854.

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