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Melissa Faliveno

Melissa Faliveno
Melissa Faliveno is a writer, editor, teacher, and author of the debut essay collection TOMBOYLAND, published by Topple Books in August 2020. The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, her essays and interviews have appeared in Esquire, Bitch, Ms. Magazine, Prairie Schooner, DIAGRAM, and Midwestern Gothic, among others, and received a notable selection in Best American Essays 2016. She has taught nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Catapult, and starting this fall will be the 2020-2021 Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Originally from small-town Wisconsin, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York


To Live Alone in the Woods and Write

Melissa Faliveno on Belonging, Anne LaBastille, and What It Means to Be a Woodswoman
July 27, 2020  By Melissa Faliveno
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