Beck HOME Series: Essayist Melissa Faliveno

The Beck Series presents Assistant Professor of English Melissa Faliveno at the Denison Museum giving a reading.

Faliveno is the author of the bestselling essay collection “TOMBOYLAND,” named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and Electric Literature. Her work has appeared in Esquire, Paris Review, Bitch, Ms. Magazine, Lit Hub, Brooklyn Rail, and Prairie Schooner, among others, and in the anthology Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Update Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic for a New Era. The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, she has taught creative writing at Kenyon College, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Catapult, and Sarah Lawrence College, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts.