About

 

Megan Harlan is an award-winning nonfiction writer, poet, and author of two books. Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020) won the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction and the Independent Book Publisher Award Gold Medal for Creative Nonfiction, received critical acclaim in The New York Times, Kirkus, Booklist, and elsewhere, and was named a Good Morning America Book Club pick. Her poetry collection, Mapmaking (BkMk Press/New Letters), was awarded the John Ciardi Poetry Prize and called “a miracle of invention” by Alice Fulton.

 

Megan’s writing has been cited four times in Best American Essays and awarded the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize and the Confrontation Poetry Prize, and has appeared in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Los Angeles Review, Poetry Daily, River Teeth, The Cincinnati Review, American Poetry Review, and Colorado Review, among others publications. She holds an MFA from New York University and a BA with honors from Tufts University. Based in Northern California with her husband and son, Megan writes about living part-time in Brittany in her newsletter, The France House.

 

 

 

CONTACT

 

Email: meganharlan (at) gmail (dot) com

 

Contacts for Mobile Home: For media requests about Mobile Home, please contact Megan’s publicists, Michelle Blankenship and Jodie Hockensmith, at Blankenship Public Relations, or Jason Bennett at the University of Georgia Press.