Melissa Fraterrigo

Melissa Fraterrigo’s forthcoming collection, The Perils of Girlhood, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in Fall, 2025. She is also the author of the novel Glory Days (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which was named one of “The Best Fiction Books of 2017” by the Chicago Review of Books as well as the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy (Livingston Press, 2006).

Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in more than fifty literary journals and anthologies from storySouth and Shenandoah to Notre Dame Review, Sou’wester, and The Millions. A graduate of the University of Iowa (BA) and Bowling Green State University (MFA), she teaches creative writing at Purdue University, and is also the founder and executive director of the Lafayette Writers’ Studio in Lafayette, Indiana, where she offers classes on the art and craft of writing. She lives with her husband and two daughters in West Lafayette, Indiana. For more on Fraterrigo’s writing and books, visit: www.melissafraterrigo.com.