Melissa Febos

Melissa Febos is the author of four books, including Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her fifth book, The Dry Season, is forthcoming from Knopf. She is a professor at the University of Iowa. (August 2023)

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Dear Judy

Judy Blume gave voice to many of the feelings I experienced during adolescence, but there were some she didn’t name.

August 11, 2023

Genre Trouble

“When I was younger, I really didn’t pay attention to whether a book was fiction or memoir—I didn’t even register the distinction.”

January 29, 2022

Jeanette Winterson, My Therapist, and Me

To a teenage girl just figuring out she was queer, the unintended gift of the British writer’s novel Written on the Body came with the force of a revelation.

January 15, 2022

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