Acclaimed memoirist and personal essayist, Melissa Febos, was a secret-keeper by nature. As a college student in New York City, she moonlighted as a professional dominatrix and suffered from a secret addiction to heroin. Her first book, Whip Smart, laid bare these double lives, and in the process, transformed her. In February 2017, her second book, Abandon Me, will be released. In these lyrical essays, Febos investigates into how the attachments and abandonments of our childhoods inform our adult choices. On February 16, she will discuss the process of transforming her darkest secrets into memoir, and the power of telling the stories that scare us most.
Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010), and the essay collection, Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017), which Kirkus Reviews called, “a courageous exploration of love as the ultimate form of plenitude and annihilation.” Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Granta, Prairie Schooner, Glamour, Salon, New York Times, Guernica, Dissent, Poets & Writers, Lenny Letter, Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, and elsewhere. Her essays have won prizes from Prairie Schooner, Story Quarterly, and The Center for Women Writers and she has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, CNN, Anderson…
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