Meg Files

Meg Files is the author of the novels Meridian 144 and The Third Law of Motion, Home Is the Hunter and Other Stories, The Love Hunter and Other Poems, the poetry chapbook Lit Blue Sky Falling, the novella A Hollow, Muscular Organ, and Writing What You Know, a book about using personal experience and taking risks with writing. She edited Lasting: Poems on Aging. Her awards include a Bread Loaf Fellowship. She taught creative writing, directed the Pima Writers' Workshop, and chaired the English...See more

Meg Files is the author of the novels Meridian 144 and The Third Law of Motion, Home Is the Hunter and Other Stories, The Love Hunter and Other Poems, the poetry chapbook Lit Blue Sky Falling, the novella A Hollow, Muscular Organ, and Writing What You Know, a book about using personal experience and taking risks with writing. She edited Lasting: Poems on Aging. Her awards include a Bread Loaf Fellowship. She taught creative writing, directed the Pima Writers' Workshop, and chaired the English and Journalism Department at Pima College for many years. She was the James Thurber Writer-in-Residence at The Ohio State University and the Doris Leadbetter Writer-in-Residence at Victoria University in Australia. She directs the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and Masters Workshop. See less