Great New American Essays
Delighted to share this episode of the Great New American Essays podcast. River Teeth editors Jill Christman and Mark Neely discuss their nonfiction lit mag's editorial vision and highlight two essays from the most recent issue—including my "Notes on Glamour, Edie,...
“Notes on Glamour, Edie, and Me” appears in River Teeth
A new essay, "Notes on Glamour, Edie, and Me," appears in River Teeth (Issue 25.1, December 2023). This piece of creative nonfiction is driven by my teenage fascination with Edie Sedgwick and the opening question: "Do we outgrow the obsessions of our youth, or do they...
Best American Essays 2023
"Matter" is cited as a distinguished essay of the year in Best American Essays 2023. First published in The Smart Set, "Matter" is my fourth essay to appear on the Best American Essays Notable list, selected by Series Editor Robert Atwan.
Two Poems in The Los Angeles Review
Two poems, "Summer" and "The Old Country," are published online in The Los Angeles Review. Read them here or click the images below.
Litquake Panel: Place as Portal to Prose
Featured on Litquake 2022's Place as Portal to Prose panel with Ann Harleman, Katie Flynn, and moderator Tania Malik for the San Francisco literary festival's Craft and the Creative Life series. "Setting is intrinsic to story and we often hear the phrase 'place as...
New essay, “Matter,” appears in The Smart Set
"Matter," an essay about Avalon, appears in The Smart Set (July 2022). It's about my search for the mythical island in France during the pandemic; how place feeds stories and how technology can deplete them; the connection between pointillism and pixels, Roxy Music...
Tufts Magazine features MOBILE HOME
Tufts Magazine features Mobile Home in the Fall 2021 issue: "By the age of 17, writer and editor Megan Harlan had lived in 17 homes as her family followed her father's engineering jobs, many in developing countries. In these interconnected essays, set in Lahore,...
Red Clay Writers Conference Workshop
Designed and taught "Playing with Facts," a guided essay writing workshop for the Red Clay Writers Conference.
MOBILE HOME Reviewed in Hippocampus
Melissa Oliveira reviews MOBILE HOME in Hippocampus: "The essays in Mobile Home are lyrical and big-hearted and thoughtful...Harlan’s nuanced take has much in common with essays by Jo Ann Beard, Annie Dillard or Maggie Nelson: inventive structure, detailed imagery,...
Best American Essays 2021
Megan Harlan's essay, "This 5,000 Year Old House," is listed as a notable essay of the year in Best American Essays 2021. The essay was originally published in the literary nonfiction journal, River Teeth.