Melissa Febos

February, at least according to Hallmark, is the month of love. At BrooklynTheBorough.com, we’re willing to buy that, but we’re going to take a slightly more adult look at affairs of the heart.

Enter Melissa Febos, author of the memoir Whip Smart (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press) out on March 2, which recalls her four years working at a midtown dungeon as a dominatrix. Publishers Weekly called it an "emotionally stark, excoriating work, [in which] Febos mines the darkest, most troubling aspects of human interaction."

Febos’s writing has been featured in The Southeast Review, Redivider, The Rambler, Storyscape Journal, and Bitch Magazine, among others. She co-curates and hosts the Mixer Reading and Music Series at Cake Shop, teaches at SUNY Purchase College, The Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and New York University, and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Brooklyn, and will be reading at the Franklin Park Reading Series on Monday, February 8, 2010 in Crown Heights. More information about her work and projects can be found at MelissaFebos.com.

You can catch Melissa reading from Whip Smart at The Franklin Park Readiing Series on Monday, February 8.