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Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourke at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Brooklyn, New York
Alma materYale University
Warren Wilson College

Meghan O'Rourke (born 1976 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American nonfiction writer, poet and critic.

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

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

  1. ^ a b c "Meghan O'Rourke Biography". Retrieved 2015-01-27.
  2. ^ Poems Out Loud > Meghan O'Rourke Reads Spectacular
  3. ^ "What's Wrong with Me? I had an autoimmune disease. Then the disease had me". Retrieved 2015-01-25.
  4. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. "Meghan O'Rourke". Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  5. ^ American Academy of Arts & Sciences. "Recipients of the Poetry Prize in Honor of May Sarton". Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  6. ^ Lannon.org. "Meghan O'Rourke". Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  7. ^ Poets.org. "Meghan O'Rourke". Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  8. ^ Brouwer, Joel (April 29, 2007). "Fields of Memory". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-04.

Sources

  • Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006.
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