Megan Harlan

Megan Harlan is a creative nonfiction writer and poet. Her nonfiction won the 2018 Arts & Letters Prize for Creative Nonfiction, was cited as Notable in Best American Essays 2018, and has appeared in AGNI, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The New York Times, and Cincinnati Review, among other publications. She is the author of Mapmaking (BkMk Press/New Letters), winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, a book Alice Fulton called "a miracle of invention." Her poetry has appeared in publications that include AGNI, Crazyhorse, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Poetry Daily, and the PBS Newshour Poetry Series. She holds an MFA from New York University’s Creative Writing Program and a B.A. in English from Tufts University. Born in Vermont and raised primarily in the Middle East, Latin America, and the San Francisco Bay Area, Megan works as a writer, editor, and educator in Berkeley, CA.