About me

Megan earned an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University, and is a professor of English at New River Community College, where she teaches creative writing, composition, and literature. She was a 2007 Fulbright-Hays fellow to South Africa, and returned to that country in 2015-2016 as a research fellow at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, studying reconciliation and public witnessing after violence. Her work has been published in Creative Nonfiction, Rappahannock Review, Ilanot Review, New Limestone Review, Earth & Altar, and Inside Higher Ed.  An earlier draft of Unarmed was a semifinalist in the 2017 Kore Press Memoir Contest, judged by Cheryl Strayed.