Megan’s books, and how they came to be:

I’d always written poems, and as my busy family and work-life was happening, I could always eke out time to work on a poem. A poem is short, right? I carried my journal with me everywhere, jotted at red lights, wrote through lunches, and I always wrote with my students. I thought of it as private writing.

This may sound cheesy, but it’s true. After the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001, I realized then that it was time for me to do what only I could do. I front-burnered my own writing and began my quest for a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing, with a poetry emphasis, at Fresno State. What a journey that was. I earned the degree and kept writing.

After publishing a number of individual poems, I was asked to submit a full collection manuscript to Tourane Poetry Press in San Jose, CA, by the inimitable poet and editor Vuong Vu. The book Sightlines, published in 2013, is available on Amazon.

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More journals published my individual poems and several were anthologized. I kept writing. I was invited to submit a manuscript to the Orchard Street Press Ltd, in Gates Mills, Ohio. The upshot of that adventure with editor/publisher Jack Kristofco was publication of my chapbook, Vanishing Point, in late 2018. That book can be purchased from the publisher at https://orchpress.com

Beside my husband, three friends read my work in manuscript form and give me feedback. One is a poet, one an artist, and one a musician. They are honest, read widely, are interested in good writing, ask me powerful questions, and each offers a unique take on the poems’ integrity, imagery, and soundscape. They point out issues, but never tell me how to solve them. Pure gold!