Megan Pillow

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Megan Pillow (formerly Megan Pillow Davis) is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction and is currently a doctoral candidate in the University of Kentucky’s English Department. Her work has appeared, among other places, in Electric Literature, SmokeLong Quarterly,  Hobart, Paper Darts, Brevity, and Passages North, has been featured in Longreads. She has twice been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, for Best Small Fictions, for Best of the Net, has a story featured on the 2019 Wigleaf Top 50, and has an essay honored as notable in the 2019 edition of The Best American Essays. Megan is working on a novel and completing her dissertation, an examination of the American freak show and its literature. Megan has received fellowships from Pen Parentis and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and completed a residency with the Ragdale Foundation. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her two children, but a big part of her heart also lives in Portland, Oregon, so she operates mostly on west coast time.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2019*

Best American Short Stories 2020*

* indicates notable/special mention

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