Melissa Faliveno MFA '11 will read from her new novel, Hemlock. Book sales and signing to follow.
Melissa Faliveno MFA '11 is the author of the novel Hemlock (Little, Brown, 2026) and the essay collection Tomboyland, named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, and Debutiful, and recipient of a 2021 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her work has appeared in Esquire, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Prairie Schooner, Brevity, and Brooklyn Rail, among others, and in the anthologies Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic (Harper Perennial, 2022) and the forthcoming Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music (Split/Lip, March 2026). The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, Melissa is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of North Carolina and lives in the woods outside Chapel Hill. www.melissafaliveno.com
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