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Author: Melissa Faliveno

Melissa Faliveno is a writer, editor, and teacher in Brooklyn, New York. The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, she has also had essays and interviews appear in Bitch magazine, the Millions, Prairie Schooner, Isthmus, DIAGRAM, Midwestern Gothic, and Green Mountains Review, among others, and received a notable selection in The Best American Essays 2016. Born and raised in small-town Wisconsin, she currently teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Tomboyland is her first book. Learn more at www.melissafaliveno.com.
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The Ms. Q&A: What Does it Mean to be a Tomboy?

Melissa Faliveno and Lisa Selin Davis
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Two books that interrogate tomboys are being published in August. The authors discuss their findings about gender and what it means to be a tomboy.

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