Megan Harlan

Megan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays, winner of the 2019 AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction. Her essays on nomadism, place, and identity have been awarded the Arts and Letters Prize for Creative Nonfiction, cited as distinguished in Best American Essays 2018 and 2019, and published in AGNI, Colorado Review, Hotel Amerika, and Cincinnati Review, among other magazines. Her poetry book, Mapmaking, won the John Ciardi Prize and features work originally published in...See more

Megan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays, winner of the 2019 AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction. Her essays on nomadism, place, and identity have been awarded the Arts and Letters Prize for Creative Nonfiction, cited as distinguished in Best American Essays 2018 and 2019, and published in AGNI, Colorado Review, Hotel Amerika, and Cincinnati Review, among other magazines. Her poetry book, Mapmaking, won the John Ciardi Prize and features work originally published in American Poetry Review, PBS NewsHour, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband and son in the San Francisco Bay Area. See less