Meghan ORourke

Meghan O’Rourke is the author of two poetry collections, Halflife (W. W. Norton, 2007) and Once (W.W. Norton, 2011), as well as The Long Goodbye (Riverhead, 2011), a memoir about grief. The recipient of the May Sarton Award for poetry from the Academy of Arts and Science, she has published poems and essays in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, The Kenyon Review, and more. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she grew up.