Meaghan grew up in Massachusetts and Illinois. She graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in English focusing on 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 a Master's in Writing through Johns Hopkins University. She was awarded an Anthropology/Creative Writing Fulbright Fellowship in 2005 and moved to Palermo, Sicily to research the Sicilian marionette theater for her novel.  She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and her writing has appeared in Playboy, The Colorado Review and Southwest Airlines' Spirit Magazine, among other publications.

When she's not writing, Meaghan enjoys reading, traveling, cooking, eating, and exploring her new home in North Carolina with her husband and their dog. 

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