Melissa Febos
Literature
Writer/Associate Professor of Creative Writing, University of Iowa – United States
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.