Meaghan spent her childhood in Rockport, Massachusetts and went to high school in Naperville, Illinois.  She graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in English concentrating in Creative Writing, and while a student there spent a semester in England studying literature and writing at Oxford and Bath.  After graduation she moved to Washington, DC, where she worked for several years as a Researcher at the National Geographic Society.  While in DC, Meaghan also pursued her Master's Degree in Writing through Johns Hopkins University.  She was awarded an Anthropology/Creative Writing Fulbright Fellowship in 2005, and moved to Palermo, Italy to study the Sicilian puppet theater as research for her current novel.  She moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas in June of 2007 to attend the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas, to be completed in May of 2010.  She teaches Creative Writing and Composition courses at the University. Her writing has appeared in The Colorado Review and Southwest Airlines' Spirit Magazine, among other publications, and she has been awarded top rankings in several national and international fiction contests. She is currently hard at work on a novel set in Sicily.  

When not writing her novel or working on other freelance projects, Meaghan enjoys reading, traveling, cooking, kick-boxing, Standard Poodles, and most things Italian. 

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