Melissa Broder | |
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Born | August 29, 1979 |
Education |
Tufts University (
BA) City College of New York ( MFA) |
Occupations |
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Notable work | So Sad Today, The Pisces, Last Sext, Milk Fed |
Awards | Pushcart Prize |
Website |
melissabroder |
Melissa Broder (born August 29, 1979) is an American author, essayist and poet. Her work includes the novels The Pisces ( Penguin Random House 2018), [1] Milk Fed ( Simon and Schuster 2021), [2] and Death Valley (Scribner, 2023), [3] the poetry collection Last Sext ( Tin House 2016), [4] and the essay collection So Sad Today ( Grand Central 2016), [5] as well as the Twitter feed also titled So Sad Today, on which the book is based. [6] Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle, Vice, Vogue Italia, and New York magazine‘s The Cut. [7]
Broder grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, with her younger sister Hayley. Her father, Bob, was a tax lawyer and her mother owned a stationery store. She attended the Baldwin School and became interested in poetry early, writing her first collection in third grade. [5]
Broder attended Tufts University, where she edited the literary magazine Queen's Head and Artichoke. She graduated in 2001 with a degree in English and then moved to San Francisco, where she worked odd jobs before relocating to New York City at 25. There she worked as a publicist for Penguin Books and attended night classes at City College of New York, earning an MFA in poetry. [5]
Broder has been clean and sober since age 25. [8]
Broder has published five collections of poetry, [9] including Superdoom [10] (2021). She won a Pushcart Prize for the poem "Forgotten Sound", [11] included in her collection Last Sext.
Broder began tweeting anonymously from her So Sad Today Twitter account in 2012. [8] She began her So Sad Today column for Vice in December 2014. [5]
She revealed herself as the account's author in a Rolling Stone interview in May 2015. [12]
As of February 2021, the So Sad Today profile had more than 1 million followers. [13]
In 2016, Broder published a collection of personal essays, So Sad Today, based on her Twitter account. [14] The collection includes some essays initially published in Vice under her So Sad Today pen name. [5]
In 2018 Broder published the novel The Pisces, [1] which garnered praise from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and The Washington Post.
In 2021, Broder published Milk Fed, [15] a critically acclaimed [16] novel that Kirkus called "[b]old, dry, and delightfully dirty." [17]
Broder is adapting The Pisces for Lionsgate Films. [1]
She also writes the Beauty and Death column for Elle. In 2020 it was announced that a television show based on her novel Milk Fed was being developed. No news has emerged since then. [18]
Broder records a podcast titled eating alone in my car in which she openly discusses her work, daily life, obsessions, and "rants about everything from mortality to Poptarts to depression". [19] She has recorded near-weekly episodes of the podcast since May 2018.
Broder is married and lives in Los Angeles. [20] She is a caregiver for her husband, who has a progressive neuroimmune disease that leaves him bedridden for months at a time. [21] She is bisexual. [22]
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Melissa Broder | |
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Born | August 29, 1979 |
Education |
Tufts University (
BA) City College of New York ( MFA) |
Occupations |
|
Notable work | So Sad Today, The Pisces, Last Sext, Milk Fed |
Awards | Pushcart Prize |
Website |
melissabroder |
Melissa Broder (born August 29, 1979) is an American author, essayist and poet. Her work includes the novels The Pisces ( Penguin Random House 2018), [1] Milk Fed ( Simon and Schuster 2021), [2] and Death Valley (Scribner, 2023), [3] the poetry collection Last Sext ( Tin House 2016), [4] and the essay collection So Sad Today ( Grand Central 2016), [5] as well as the Twitter feed also titled So Sad Today, on which the book is based. [6] Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle, Vice, Vogue Italia, and New York magazine‘s The Cut. [7]
Broder grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, with her younger sister Hayley. Her father, Bob, was a tax lawyer and her mother owned a stationery store. She attended the Baldwin School and became interested in poetry early, writing her first collection in third grade. [5]
Broder attended Tufts University, where she edited the literary magazine Queen's Head and Artichoke. She graduated in 2001 with a degree in English and then moved to San Francisco, where she worked odd jobs before relocating to New York City at 25. There she worked as a publicist for Penguin Books and attended night classes at City College of New York, earning an MFA in poetry. [5]
Broder has been clean and sober since age 25. [8]
Broder has published five collections of poetry, [9] including Superdoom [10] (2021). She won a Pushcart Prize for the poem "Forgotten Sound", [11] included in her collection Last Sext.
Broder began tweeting anonymously from her So Sad Today Twitter account in 2012. [8] She began her So Sad Today column for Vice in December 2014. [5]
She revealed herself as the account's author in a Rolling Stone interview in May 2015. [12]
As of February 2021, the So Sad Today profile had more than 1 million followers. [13]
In 2016, Broder published a collection of personal essays, So Sad Today, based on her Twitter account. [14] The collection includes some essays initially published in Vice under her So Sad Today pen name. [5]
In 2018 Broder published the novel The Pisces, [1] which garnered praise from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and The Washington Post.
In 2021, Broder published Milk Fed, [15] a critically acclaimed [16] novel that Kirkus called "[b]old, dry, and delightfully dirty." [17]
Broder is adapting The Pisces for Lionsgate Films. [1]
She also writes the Beauty and Death column for Elle. In 2020 it was announced that a television show based on her novel Milk Fed was being developed. No news has emerged since then. [18]
Broder records a podcast titled eating alone in my car in which she openly discusses her work, daily life, obsessions, and "rants about everything from mortality to Poptarts to depression". [19] She has recorded near-weekly episodes of the podcast since May 2018.
Broder is married and lives in Los Angeles. [20] She is a caregiver for her husband, who has a progressive neuroimmune disease that leaves him bedridden for months at a time. [21] She is bisexual. [22]
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