Melissa Fraterrigo

Biography

Melissa Fraterrigo’s forthcoming memoir, 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 and it was a 2017 Finalist for Literary Fiction by Foreword Review. Her previous book of fiction includes the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy (Livingston Press, 2006). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous 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.