"Publications in Literary Magazines Validates the Time I Spend Alone at My Desk": A Chat With Author Melissa Fraterrigo

Authors

Melissa FraterrigoFollow
Tanya PerkinsFollow

Abstract

Melissa Fraterrigo has published two books: the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy, and Glory Days, a novel-in-stories. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in more than forty literary journals and anthologies including The Rumpus, Shenandoah, The Massachusetts Review, storySouth and Notre Dame Review. She has been a finalist for awards from Glimmer Train on multiple occasions, twice nominated for Pushcart Awards, and was the winner of the Sam Adams/Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Contest. Currently, she is director of the Lafayette Writers’ Studio, which she founded in 2014 in Lafayette, Indiana. The Review Review caught up with Melissa to talk about her new book, Glory Days, which will be released by the University of Nebraska Press in September 2017.

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Recommended Citation

Fraterrigo, Melissa and Perkins, Tanya (2020) ""Publications in Literary Magazines Validates the Time I Spend Alone at My Desk": A Chat With Author Melissa Fraterrigo," The Review Review: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 16.
DOI: 10.33972/trr.72
Available at: https://repository.gonzaga.edu/trr/vol1/iss1/16