About Melissa
Sobre Melissa
Author photograph by Bartosz Potocki
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 Award for Debut Novel, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Her most recent novel, Flores and Miss Paula, is a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize. Born in Lima, Peru and raised in Brooklyn, she is a graduate of NYU and Brooklyn Law School, where she was an editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. She lives in New York City with her family.
Melissa Rivero es autora de Los Falcón, ganador del 2019 Premio New American Voices, un 2020 Premio International Latino Book Award, y también ha sido nominada para el Aspen Words Literary Prize y los premios del PEN/Hemingway y Center for Fiction, ambos para novelas debut. Su mas reciente novela, Flores and Miss Paula, es un finalista para el Gotham Book Prize. Nacida en Lima, Perú y criada en Brooklyn, Rivero se graduó de la Universidad de Nueva York y de la escuela de Leyes de Brooklyn, donde fue una editora del Brooklyn Law Review. Vive en la Ciudad de Nueva York con su familia.
