Meg Kearney
Meg Kearney is the author of three books: An Unkindness of Ravens, was published by BOA Editions Ltd. in 2001; The Secret of Me, a novel in verse for teens, released by Persea Books in 2005; and Home By Now, out with Four Way Books in fall 2009. Her picture book for children, Trouper the Three-Legged Dog, is forthcoming from Scholastic. Meg’s poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily and Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac,” and has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. She is also co-editor of Blues for Bill: a Tribute to William Matthews (Akron University Press, 2005). Recipient of an Artist’s Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2001, Meg also received a New York Times Fellowship and the Alice M. Sellers Academy of American Poets Award in 1998. Meg is currently Director of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA, as well as Director of Pine Manor’s Solstice Summer Writers Conference. For 11 years prior to joining Pine Manor, she was Associate Director of the National Book Foundation, sponsor of the National Book Awards, in New York City. She also taught poetry at the New School University. She lives in New Hampshire, with her three-legged black Lab, Trooper.