Melissa Febos
Literature
Writer/Associate Professor of Creative Writing, University of Iowa – United States
This information is accurate as of the fellowship year indicated for each fellow.
While in residency at Bogliasco, Melissa Febos will be working on her fifth book, The Dry Season, a deeply researched memoir about the author’s year of celibacy, an expectedly sensual and revelatory time during which she examined her own intimate patterns and their cultural underpinnings, and began a wide-ranging exploration into the lives of women throughout history who used celibacy and other forms of divestment to forge radical paths of liberation.