Melissa Rivero

Melissa performed at a SpeakTogether student matinee at Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, Brooklyn, on May 5, 2024.

Melissa Rivero is the author of, most recently, Flores and Miss Paula and The Affairs of the Falcóns, which won the 2019 New American Voices Award and a 2020 International Latino Book Award and was long-listed for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Brooklyn, she is a graduate of NYU and Brooklyn Law School.

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