Megan Vered’s personal essays and interviews have been published in
High Country News, Shondaland.com,
Kveller,
The Rumpus,
The Maine Review, and
The Writer’s Chronicle, among others. Her essay “Requiem for a Lost Organ” was long-listed for the Disquiet 2022 Literary Prize, and she was a finalist for the
Bellingham Review’s 2021 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her essay “How a Bar of Soap Taught Me to Apologize” went viral on Flipboard’s “10 for Today.” Megan lives in Marin County, where she leads local and international writing workshops and participates in literary readings. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, heads the governance committee for Heyday Books, and is the CNF interviewer for
The Maine Review. Please visit Megan at
www.meganvered.com.