Our next Letter in the Mail comes from acclaimed author Melissa Rivero! Melissa writes to us about the importance of making time for play—in our writing, and in our lives.
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Melissa Rivero is the author of The Affairs of the Falcóns, which won the New American Voices Award and was nominated 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.
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Photograph of Melissa Rivero by Bartosz Potocki.
