Meaghan grew up in Rockport, MA and Naperville, Illinois. She graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in English, concentrating in Creative Writing, and spent a semester in England studying literature and writing at Oxford and Bath.  She worked for several years as a Researcher at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC, and while there pursued her Master's in Writing through Johns Hopkins.  She was awarded an Anthropology/Creative Writing Fulbright in 2005 and moved to Palermo, Sicily to study the Sicilian puppet theater as research for her novel.  She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Playboy, The Colorado Review and Southwest Airlines' Spirit Magazine, among other publications, and she's been awarded top rankings in several fiction contests.

When she's not writing, Meaghan enjoys reading, traveling, eating, kick-boxing, Standard Poodles, and most things Italian. 

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