Dr. Meghan O Rourke

Biography

Meghan O’Rourke is a prominent writer, poet, and editor, currently serving as a Professor of Practice in English Creative Writing at Yale University. She has authored several acclaimed works, including the bestselling memoir "Long Goodbye" (2011) and the poetry collection "Sun Days" (2017), which was named New York Poetry Book of the Year. Her other notable works include "Once" (2011) and "Halflife" (2007), which was a finalist for the Patterson Poetry Prize and Britain’s Forward Book Prize. O’Rourke’s writing has garnered numerous accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Radcliffe Fellowship, Whiting Nonfiction Award, Sarton Poetry Prize, the Union League Prize for Poetry awarded by the Poetry Foundation, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She started her career as a fiction and nonfiction editor at The New Yorker and has also served as a culture editor and literary critic for Slate. Moreover, she was a poetry editor and advisory editor for The Paris Review. Her essays, criticism, and poems have appeared in esteemed publications such as The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Poetry, and the Kenyon Review. She teaches courses on the art of editing and public writing at Yale University, where she also acts as an editor for the Yale Review.

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