Meghan O'Rourke
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Meghan O'Rourke at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.
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Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Brooklyn, New York |
Alma mater | Yale University Warren Wilson College |
Meghan O'Rourke (born 1976 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American nonfiction writer, poet and critic.
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Background and education
O'Rourke is a graduate of Yale, and she received an MFA in Creative Writing from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Career
Journalism
O'Rourke was formerly a fiction editor at The New Yorker and from 2005-2010 was poetry co-editor at The Paris Review.[1] She is also an occasional contributor to The New York Times. O'Rourke has written on a wide and eclectic range of topics, including horse racing, gender bias in the literary world, the politics of marriage and divorce, and the place of grief and mourning in modern society. She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, The New Republic, and Poetry.;[2][1] Along with Perrine's Literatures Twelfth Edition. Her first book of poems, Halflife, was published by Norton in 2007. O'Rourke's book, The Long Goodbye, a memoir of grief and mourning written after the death of her mother, was published to wide critical acclaim in April 2011. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. O'Rourke suffers from an autoimmune disorder which she has written about for The New Yorker.[3] She is working on a book about chronic illness.[1]
Awards and fellowships
- 2014 Guggenheim Award for General Nonfiction[4]
- 2008 May Sarton Poetry Prize[5]
- 2007 Lannan Literary Award[6]
- 2005 Union League and Civic Arts Foundation Award from the Poetry Foundation[7]
Books
- Halflife: Poems, poetry (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007).[8]
- The Long Goodbye, memoir (New York: Riverhead, 2011).
- Once: Poems, poetry (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011).
References
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Sources
- Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006.
External links
- Website: Official website
- Excerpt: An excerpt from The Long Goodbye, in The New Yorker.
- Audio: Meghan O'Rourke reads "Spectacular" from the book Halflife (via poemsoutloud.net)
- Audio: Meghan O'Rourke reading from Halflife at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008. (.mp3 / 15:44)
- "Chemotherapy," a poem by Meghan O'Rourke published in Guernica Magazine
- Meghan O'Rourke on Twitter
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American poets
- Poets from New York
- Writers from Brooklyn
- The New Yorker people
- Yale University alumni
- Slate (magazine) people
- Guggenheim Fellows
- American women poets
- Warren Wilson College alumni
- 21st-century women writers
- Radcliffe fellows