Reading at Sarah Lawrence College: Melissa Febos and Matt Rasmussen

Acclaimed writers Melissa Febos (nonfiction) and Matt Rasmussen (poetry), will read at Sarah Lawrence College on Tuesday, June 21 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. The Donnelley Theatre at Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Sarah Lawrence College, 1 Mead Way Bronxville NY 10708. (914) 337-0700.

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010) and the forthcoming essay collection, Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017). Her essays have won prizes from Prairie Schooner, Story Quarterly, and The Center for Women Writers, and she is the recipient of fellowships from Bread Loaf, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and The MacDowell Colony. She is assistant professor of creative writing at Monmouth University and teaches creative nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College.

Matt Rasmussen is the author of Black Aperture (2013), which won a Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and was a National Book Award finalist. His honors and awards include fellowships from Yaddo, the Loft Literary Center, the Jerome Foundation, Intermedia Arts, and the McKnight Foundation. He is a founding member of the poetry press Birds, LLC. Rasmussen teaches at his alma mater, Gustavus Adolphus College.