About
I'm Meghan
She/her or they/them pronouns
As deceptive as my Instagram may be, I don't just live for the aesthetic. I am a passionate learner and love studying the craft of writing in everything I encounter.
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I love being warm in cold weather. I drink too much tea. I spend most of my time with my cat, Genowefa.
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I was born and raised in the Chicago area, but my parents are from Ireland and Poland, so I have been lucky enough to form lasting attachment to both places (and my family across the ocean).
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When it comes to learning, I am a student of literature, your classic English major all-around. My masters thesis is on how contemporary nature poetry responds to the pressures of late capitalis
Book Recommendations
Books on Writing
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The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
They Say/I Say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein
Why We Write ed. Meredith Maran
I is an Other by James Geary
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Fiction
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Beowulf trans. Maria Headley
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Boneclocks by David Mitchell
Man V. Nature by Diane Cook
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Anne Carson's new translations
The Likeness by Tana French
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Poetry
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Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Kieth S. Wilson
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Cold Pastoral by Rebecca Dunham
The Carrying by Ada Limon
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon
In a Hare's Eye by Breda Wall Ryan
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
Mary Oliver, generally
I Can't Talk About The Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
Queen of a Rainy Country by Linda Pastan
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Nonfiction
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Sacred Depths of Nature by Ursula Goodenough
Anthropocene Poetics by David Farrier
Love in a Dark Time by Colm Toibin
Anne Carson
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