Megan Harlan writes fiction, poetry, and freelance journalism.
Megan's short stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, Meridian, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Sycamore Review. She is the author of Mapmaking, winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry (selected by Sidney Wade) and published by the University of Missouri's BkMk Press in 2010. Poems from the book have been featured on PBS NewsHour's Poetry Series, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily, and in journals that includeTriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner,AGNI Online, American Poetry Review, and Arts & Letters. She has regularly contributed nonfiction pieces, including travel features and book reviews, to publications that include The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, ELLE, Salon, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, and Entertainment Weekly.
She holds a master's degree in Creative Writing from New York University (where she was awarded Writers Fellowships) and a B.A. in English from Tufts University. She was born in Vermont, grew up in Saudi Arabia, Colombia, London, Houston, Alaska, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and lived for many years in lower Manhattan. She lives with her husband and young son in Berkeley, California, and is working on her next book.
