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Join Melissa Febos on Thursday, May 22nd

for a virtual pre-launch craft session. 

Melissa will give a short craft talk: "Memoir for Hard Times," lead a writing exercise, give a short reading from The Dry Season, and close with a Q&A.

When: May 22, 2025

Time: 7-8:30pm ET

Where: Zoom

The Dry Season by Melissa Febos
The Dry Season by Melissa Febos

From the national bestselling author of Girlhood, an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes Melissa Febos discovered during a year of celibacy. A wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.

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Melissa Febos

MELISSA FEBOS is the nationally bestselling author of four books, including Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, LAMBDA Literary, the National Endowment for the Arts, the British Library, the Black Mountain Institute, the Bogliasco Foundation, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Essays, Vogue, The Sewanee Review, New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. Febos is a full professor at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City with her wife, the poet Donika Kelly.

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