Meghan O'Rourke
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Born | New York City, New York, U.S. | January 26, 1976
Education | Yale University (BA) Warren Wilson College (MFA) |
Meghan O'Rourke (born 1976) is an American nonfiction writer, poet and critic.
Background and education
O'Rourke was born January 26, 1976, in Brooklyn, New York.[1] The eldest of three children born to Paul and Barbara O’Rourke, she had two younger brothers. Her mother was a longtime teacher and administrator at Saint Ann's, an elite independent school in Brooklyn, and later headmaster of the Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut. Her father, a classicist and Egyptologist, also taught at Saint Ann's and Pierrepont. O'Rourke attended St. Ann's through high school. She earned a bachelor's of arts degree in English language and literature from Yale University in 1997 and a master of fine arts degree in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2005.[1]
Career
Journalism
Immediately after graduating from Yale, O'Rourke began an internship as an
along with Perrine's Literatures Twelfth Edition.O'Rourke's first book of poems, Halflife, was published by Norton in 2007. Her book The Long Goodbye, a memoir of grief and mourning written after her mother's death, was published to wide critical acclaim in 2011. On July 1, 2019, O'Rourke became editor of The Yale Review, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of its founding.[4]
O'Rourke suffers from an
Awards and fellowships
- 2005: Union League and Civic Arts Foundation Award from the Poetry Foundation[11]
- 2007: Lannan Literary Award[12]
- 2008: May Sarton Poetry Prize[13]
- 2014: Guggenheim Award for General Nonfiction[14]
- 2017: Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her book, What's Wrong With Me? The Mysteries of Chronic Illness[15]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Collections
- O'Rourke, Meghan (2007). Halflife : poems. New York: W. W. Norton.
- Once: Poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011).
- Sun In Days (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017).
- List of poems
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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Navesink | 2017 | O'Rourke, Meghan (March 13, 2017). "Navesink". The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 4. p. 55. | |
My Life as a Subject | 2008 | O'Rourke, Meghan (June 2008). "My Life as a Subject". Poetry. 192: 200-4. | |
On Marriage | 2008 | O'Rourke, Meghan (June 2008). "On Marriage". Poetry. 192: 205. | |
Halflife | 2005 | O'Rourke, Meghan (September 2005). "Halflife". Poetry. 187: 411. | |
Sleep | 2005 | O'Rourke, Meghan (September 2005). "Sleep". Poetry. 187: 410. |
Memoirs
- The Long Goodbye, memoir (New York: Riverhead, 2011).
- The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, memoir (Riverhead Books, 2022).
Anthologies
- ed. A World Out of Reach: Dispatches from Life Under Lockdown (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Lightner, Barb (2019). Literary Biographies. Great Neck Publishing. pp. 1–3.
- ^ a b "Meghan O'Rourke Biography". Retrieved January 27, 2015.
- ^ "Poems Out Loud > Meghan O'Rourke Reads Spectacular". Archived from the original on September 10, 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2009.
- ^ "Introducing the New Editor of The Yale Review: Meghan O'Rourke". Literary Hub. December 6, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ "What's Wrong with Me? I had an autoimmune disease. Then the disease had me". Retrieved January 25, 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-698-19076-4.
- ^ "Best Books 2022: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
- ^ "The Mysteries of Chronic Illness". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. April 7, 2015. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
- ^ Kelly, Hillary (March 4, 2022). "Review: How America fails chronically ill people, in one memoirist's diagnosis". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Andrews, Meredith (September 14, 2022). "2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction". National Book Foundation.
- ^ Poets.org. "Meghan O'Rourke". Retrieved April 19, 2014.
- ^ Lannon.org. "Meghan O'Rourke". Retrieved April 19, 2014.
- ^ American Academy of Arts & Sciences. "Recipients of the Poetry Prize in Honor of May Sarton". Retrieved April 19, 2014.
- ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. "Meghan O'Rourke". Archived from the original on April 19, 2014. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
- ^ Whiting Foundation. "2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Meghan O'Rourke". Whiting.org. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
Sources
- Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006.
Further reading
- Brouwer, Joel (April 29, 2007). "Fields of memory". The New York Times. Review of Halflife.
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