Melissa Faliveno
Emily Burack — Storms & Reckonings: An Interview with Melissa Faliveno, author of TOMBOYLAND
Melissa Faliveno’s debut essay collection Tomboyland is full of gorgeous meditations on queerneess, the Midwest, gender, and everything in -between. From the first essay, “The Finger of God,” which details the tornadoes in her small Wisconsin hometown, through “Switch-Hitter,” about playing softball but also so much more, to the last essay, “Driftless,” a story of growing up in the Midwest, Tomboyland is deeply rooted in an acute awareness of place and body. One July morning after a particularly violent thunderstorm, I chatted with Faliveno about storms, reckonings, and reclaiming words. — Emily Burack
