Meghan O'Rourke

Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Meghan O’Rourke’s first book of poems, Halflife, was published by W. W. Norton in 2007. She is the culture critic of Slate and a poetry editor at The Paris Review, and her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and other venues. A finalist for the 2007 Patterson Poetry Prize, she is the recipient of the 2005 Union League and Civic Arts Foundation Award from the Poetry Foundation. She is from Brooklyn , NY.