NMU Visiting Writers Series Event: Melissa Faliveno Reads from her debut novel, HEMLOCK, followed by a Q&A and book-signing.

Melissa Faliveno is the author of the essay collection Tomboyland, named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, and Electric Literature, and recipient of a 2021 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her work has appeared in Esquire, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Literary Hub, Brevity, Diagram, Prairie Schooner, and Brooklyn Rail, among others, and in the anthology Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic (Harper Perennial, 2022) and the forthcoming Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music (Split/Lip, 2026). The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, Melissa is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina and lives in the woods outside Chapel Hill. Her debut novel, Hemlock, was released from Little, Brown in January 2026. www.melissafaliveno.com