Melissa Fraterrigo
Melissa Fraterrigo's forthcoming collection of essays is The Perils of Girlhood (Fall 2025). She is also is the author of two books of fiction (Glory Days and The Longest Pregnancy). Previously published interviews or book reviews have appeared in Catapult, Rain Taxi, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including storySouth, Shenandoah, Notre Dame Review, and Indiana Review, among others. She is the founder and executive director of the Lafayette Writers' Studio in Lafayette, Indiana. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University.
Bonnie Jo Campbell has been shedding light on the rural Midwest since the publication of her 1999 juggernaut, Women and Other Animals. Her stories have long featured women and men struggling to squeeze out a living. And with each book, they have found themselves in situations that place this adversity alongside larger social issues. Nowhere is this more spellbinding than in The Waters. In the book, Campbell holds up a vision of a world that is lyrical and thought-provoking and easily one of her best. After being named the January Pick for the Today Show’s “Read with Jenna” Book Club as well as Oprah Daily’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2024,” her gritty realism heads mainstream.
