Melissa Broder

Melissa Broder is a poet and writer. Her work includes the novel The Pisces (Penguin Random House 2018),[1] the poetry collection Last Sext (Tin House 2016)[2] and essay collection So Sad Today (Grand Central 2016),[3] as well as a popular Twitter feed also titled So Sad Today, on which the book is based.[4]

Melissa Broder
2017
Alma materTufts University (BA), City College of New York (MFA)
OccupationPoet, essayist
Notable work
So Sad Today, The Pisces, Last Sext
AwardsPushcart Prize
Websitemelissabroder.com

Early life

Broder grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.[5] She attended the Baldwin School and became interested in poetry early, writing her first collection in third grade.[3]

Broder developed an anxiety disorder at age 12.[6]

She then attended Tufts University where she studied English and edited the literary magazine Queen's Head and Artichoke. After graduating, she moved to San Francisco, then to New York where she worked as a publicist for Penguin Books and attended night classes at City College of New York, earning an MFA in poetry.[3]

Broder has been clean and sober since age 25.[6]

Career

Poetry

Broder has published four collections of poetry.[7] In 2017, Broder won a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Forgotten Sound",[8] included in her collection Last Sext.

Twitter

Broder began her So Sad Today Twitter account, initially anonymously, in 2012.[6] She revealed herself as the account's author in an Rolling Stone interview in May 2015.[9]

As of April 23, 2020, the So Sad Today Twitter account had more than 969,700 followers.[10]

So Sad Today

In 2016, Broder published a collection of personal essays, So Sad Today, based on her Twitter account.[11] The collection includes some essays initially published at Vice under her So Sad Today pen name.[3]

The Pisces

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.

Other projects

Broder is adapting The Pisces for Lionsgate Films.[1] Broder writes the So Sad Today column for Vice Media, the horoscopes for Lena Dunham's newsletter Lenny Letter and the Beauty and Death column for Elle. She has a television pilot in development.[3]

Personal life

Broder is married and lives in Los Angeles.[5]

Bibliography

Poetry

Essay collection
  • So Sad Today (Grand Central, 2016)[20]

Novel
  • The Pisces (Penguin Random House, May 2018)[21]

References
  1. Syme, Rachel (April 26, 2018). "In 'The Pisces,' a Woman and a Merman Fall in Love. Aquatic Erotica Ensues". The New York Times. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  2. "Fiction Book Review: Last Sext by Melissa Broder". Publishers Weekly. April 18, 2016. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  3. Joiner, Whitney (March 14, 2016). "Why Is Melissa Broder So Sad Today?". Elle (April 2016). Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  4. Lovitt, Bryn (March 15, 2016). "So Sad Today Author Melissa Broder on Twitter Anonymity and Internet Addiction". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  5. Bromwich, Kathryn (May 8, 2016). "So Sad Today's Melissa Broder: 'I just want to rip that chapter out'". The Guardian. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  6. Mlotek, Haley (March 24, 2016). "The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  7. Volpe, Allie (March 14, 2016). "Melissa Broder happy to bring 'So Sad Today' back home". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  8. Henderson, Bill; Pushcart Press (January 1, 2017). Pushcart prize XLI, 2017: best of the small presses. ISSN 0149-7863. OCLC 961956305.
  9. Vozick-Levinson, Simon (May 19, 2015). "SoSadToday Reveals Her Identity and Existential Beach Read". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  10. "@SoSadToday Twitter Account Followers Page". Twitter. February 26, 2018.
  11. Coakley, Alexandra (May 4, 2016). "The Ocean of Sadness". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  12. Moysaenko, Peter (March 19, 2010). "Melissa Broder, When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  13. Zingg, Matthew (April 14, 2012). "I Have a Jaw That Seeks Chunks". The Rumpus. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  14. "Fiction Book Review: Meat Heart by Melissa Broder". Publishers Weekly. March 1, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  15. Moysaenko, Peter (July 27, 2012). "Melissa's Meat Heart". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  16. Diamond, Jason (February 25, 2014). "Melissa Broder Is Twitter's Most Fascinating Poet". Flavorwire. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  17. "Fiction Book Review: Scarecrone by Melissa Broder". Publishers Weekly. February 24, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  18. Derby, Edward (April 21, 2017). "The Teenage Girl in All of Us: Last Sext by Melissa Broder". The Rumpus. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  19. Delaney, Kellylouise (June 13, 2016). "What Is Melissa Broder's Last Sext?: Talking Poetry, God, and LA with the Darkly Brilliant Writer". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
  20. Havrilesky, Heather (March 15, 2016). "Ask Polly and So Sad Today Talk About Feelings". The Cut. New York. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  21. The Pisces by Melissa Broder | PenguinRandomHouse.com.
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