Melissa Fraterrigo

Melissa Fraterrigo’s memoir, The Perils of Girlhood, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2025. She is also the author of the novel Glory Days (University of Nebraska Press), 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). She teaches creative writing at Purdue University, in the Butler University MFA in Creative Writing program, and is the founder of the Lafayette Writers’ Studio.