100 (English) Women's History Month Special: Melissa Rivero, Peruvian-American Author
Melissa Rivero is the author of The Affairs of the Falcóns, which won the 2019 New American Voices Award and a 2020 International Latino Book Award. The book was also longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Brooklyn, she is a graduate of NYU and Brooklyn Law School. Melissa currently works as in-house legal counsel at a startup. She still lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Connect with Melissa via:IG: @melissarivero_
Website: https://www.melissa-rivero.com/
In this episode:
Melissa shares the inspiration and journey to write and publish her book, The Affairs of the Falcóns
How writing - and other creative pursuits - can feel like a luxury or something only the privileged could do
Her Pucallpa roots, growing up Peruvian in New York City, and now raising bilingual and multi-cultural children
Book/Authors Recommendations:
Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez,
Cristina Garcia,
Ada Limón’s Poetry,
Mario Vargas Llosa,
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