Maegan Poland lives in Philadelphia, where she teaches creative writing and composition at Drexel University. She earned her PhD in English with a Creative Dissertation from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where her work was supported by a Black Mountain Institute fellowship. She also holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Mississippi, as well as a BFA in Writing for Screen & Television from the University of Southern California, where she was a Trustee Scholar.
Her debut short story collection What Makes You Think You're Awake? won the Bakwin Award and is forthcoming in 2021 from Blair Press. Her fiction has been published in Mississippi Review, Pleiades, Beloit Fiction Journal, Juked, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. She has received a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology, a Tin House scholarship, and a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.
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