S2, Ep. 4: Melissa Fraterrigo and The Perils of Girlhood
In this week’s episode, I speak to Melissa Fraterrigo, whose new book, The Perils of Girlhood, is a memoir in essays about how we teach girls to live in this world — both from her own perspective through her experiences as a young girl, and as a mother to girls.Melissa also wrote the novel Glory Days and a short story collection, The Longest Pregnancy. Her work has been nominated twice for Pushcart awards, and she teaches writing at Purdue University and in the MFA Program at Butler University in Indianapolis, and hosts the Lafayette Writers’ Studio, with many courses offered online — I…
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