Writer Melissa Febos in conversation with Associate Professor Leslie Jamison.
Melissa Febos is the national bestselling author of five books, including Abandon Me, Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, and The Dry Season. Her debut novel, The Critic, is forthcoming in 2028. Her awards and fellowships include those from the Guggenheim Foundation, LAMBDA Literary, the National Endowment for the Arts, The British Library, The Black Mountain Institute, MacDowell, the Bogliasco Foundation, The American Library in Paris, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Sun, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Essays, The Year’s Best Sports Writing, Vogue, and New York Review of Books. Febos is a Roy J. Carver Professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program. She lives in Iowa City with her wife, the poet Donika Kelly.
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About the Nonfiction Dialogues
The Nonfiction Dialogues is an evening literary series in which MFA Writing faculty talk to distinguished nonfiction writers about their work and careers.
