An engaging three-day event you won't want to miss.
Melissa Fraterrigo
University of Nebraska Press 206 pages September 2025
Like many girls growing up in the eighties and nineties, Melissa Fraterrigo leaned on popular culture to transition from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Judy Blume told stories about girls embracing their imperfections; Madonna encouraged bold moves. But Fraterrigo’s experiences with dating and attempts to refashion her body through diet and exercise left her feeling far from empowered. It wasn’t until Fraterrigo became a mother to twin daughters and they began their own self-criticisms that she questioned how she might help them navigate their own girlhoods.
The Big Conversation
The New MFA?
A Very Unlikely Author
Rereading Flowers for Algernon
From Muse to Subject
Crafting Poems from the Life of Nina Simone
Everything You Wanted to Know About Publishing Your Second Novel but Were Afraid to Ask
Reimagining Promotion
Five Agents in Twenty-Five Years
What I’ve Learned About Finding the Right One
Debut at Eighty-Two
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