“Transforming my secrets into art has transformed me. And I believe that stories like these have the power to transform the world. That is the point of literature, or at least that’s what I tell my students. We are writing the history that we could not find in any other book. We are telling the stories that no one else can tell, and we are giving this proof of our survival to one another.”

—Melissa Febos, in “The Heart-Work: Writing About Trauma as a Subversive Act” in the January/February 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine