Author Talk with Melissa Fraterrigo

Join us for an Author talk with Evergreen Park’s own, Melissa Fraterrigo, to discuss her newest memoir in essays, The Perils of Girlhood, which was published in September 2025. Melissa is the author of numerous short stories, creative nonfiction essays, and reviews.  

Melissa Fraterrigo is the author of the forthcoming memoir in essays, The Perils of Girlhood  (University of Nebraska Press, September 2025) and also the novel Glory Days (University of Nebraska Press, fall 2017) and the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy (Livingston Press). Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies from Shenandoah and The Massachusetts Review to 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. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University and also offers instruction on the art and craft of writing at the Lafayette Writers’ Studio in Lafayette, Indiana.