Melissa Febos

Melissa Febos is an American author, essayist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. She is one of the most acclaimed essayists of her generation, known for writing that is fearless, intellectually rigorous and deeply personal. Her memoir Whip Girl detailed her experience working as a professional dominatrix while struggling with heroin addiction. Body Work is a collection of essays about the body as a site of experience, knowledge and creative expression. The book examines how writing about the body — including experiences of desire, abuse, pleasure and vulnerability — is not self-indulgent but essential, and makes the case for personal narrative as a vital literary and political act. Available as both books and audiobooks, Melissa Febos's work offers powerful listening and reading for fans of literary non-fiction, memoir and anyone interested in the art of writing about personal experience with honesty, courage and craft.