The spring 2022 semester has been quite extraordinary for Melissa Febos.

Febos, associate professor in the University of Iowa Department of English and its Nonfiction Writing Program, in January, was named a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow; in March she was named winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, and in April was named a 2022 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in general nonfiction.

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