Melissa Febos is the national bestselling author of four books, most recently, Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. She is the recipient of honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, MacDowell, LAMBDA Literary, and others. A full professor at the University of Iowa, her fifth book, The Dry Season, will be released on June 3, 2025.