About Melissa
Sobre Melissa
Author photograph by Bartosz Potocki
Melissa Rivero is the author of The Affairs of the Falcóns, winner of 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, was published in December 2023. 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. Melissa still lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Melissa Rivero es autora de Los Falcón y Flores and Miss Paula, el cual será publicado en Diciembre 2023 (Ecco/HarperCollins). Ella ganó el 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. 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 Brooklyn con su familia.
