“My name is Megan, and I’d love to write things for you.”
“My name is Megan, and I’d love to write things for you.”
“Bloodlines” (personal essay) accepted for publication in The Santa Fe Literary Review, 2025
“Resuscitation” (personal essay), Spirited Voices, Winter 2025
Redwood Writers 2023 Anthology, Phases
“Burn Scar, Lake Margaret Trail, Alpine County” (Honorable Mention in annual contest)
“Unlikely Hiker”
Fault Zone: Reverse (2021 literary journal)
”Firebrands” (poem)
“Smoke and Mirrors” (personal essay)
Eye on Life Poet of the Month (webzine), 2013, “Jumper,” “Habitation,” “When a Poem Speaks to My Soul”
The Poetic Pinup Review (literary journal), 2012, ”Adam’s Rest” and “Landing” (poems)
Awosting Alchemy (defunct webzine), 2012, ”Rutting Season” (poem)
Down in the Dirt (webzine and print anthology), 2012, “Jumper” (poem)
Oysters and Chocolate (defunct web magazine), 2011, “Bedsit” (short form erotica)
Gone Bad (CG feature animation screenplay), 2001
“Seeking Literary Representation: Compiling Your List of Agents to Query” presenter, Rinconada (Palo Alto) Library as part of Writers Helping Writers, January 2025
“Seeking Literary Representation: Compiling Your List of Agents to Query” presenter, California Writers Club San Francisco Peninsula Branch, October 2024
Online NaNoWriMo 2024 support sessions leader, California Writers Club San Francisco Peninsula Branch
“Finding Your Writing Community” presentation, Rinconada (Palo Alto) Library as part of Writers Helping Writers, 2024
“Finding Your Writing Community” presentation, Menlo Park Main Library, 2023
In-person NaNoWriMo 2022 support sessions leader, Menlo Park Main Library
“Safe Spaces for Writers” webinar, Menlo Park Main Library, 2021
NaNoWriMo 2020 virtual support sessions leader, Menlo Park Main Library
KQED Radio Perspectives commentator, 2020, “Smoke and Mirrors” (personal essay)
Literary salon Bay Area Generations reader, 2019, “Blood Ties” and “Attending to Memories” (personal essays)
“Outlining for Everyone” presentation, California Writers Club San Francisco Peninsula Branch, 2019
October 2016 Lit Crawl San Francisco’s Writers Without Borders reader, DIRTY
Semifinalist on 2022 television pilot, America’s Next Great Author, COMPLIANCE
San Mateo County Fair Literary Stage—2019 Prize-Winning Entries:
1st Place in Publisher’s Choice Novel Chapter, UNDER L
3rd Place in Publisher’s Choice Novel Chapter, INCENDIARY
2nd Place for Structured Poetry, “Habitation”
3rd Place for Structured Poetry, “A Haunted Sonnet”
3rd Place for Free Form Poetry, “Before the Fall”
Honorable Mention for Children’s Story, “Cat in Glasses”
Presenter, “Outlining for Everyone”
Winner, The Book Doctors’ Pitchapalooza, 2018 Kauai Writers Conference, DIRTY
San Mateo County Fair Literary Stage—2018 Exhibitor of the Year
1st Place in Personal Essay, “Tote Baggage”
2nd Place in Special Novel Opening Chapter, COMPLIANCE
2nd Place in Free Form Poetry, “Rutting Season”
1st Place for Children’s Story, “Allyson in the Islands”
Fourth Place, 2011 Script Vamp’s Dream Quest Attention Grabber Screenplay Contest, FRAMED
First Place, 2002 First Fifteen Pages Screenwriting Competition, FRAMED
2016 Napa Valley Writers Conference, workshopped “City of Homes” (short story) with Yiyun Li
Stanford Continuing Studies Certificate in Fiction Writing, 2016
Workshopped thesis manuscript DIRTY with novelists Ammi Keller, Joshua Mohr, and Helena Echlin
Bay Path University 2015 Summer in Ireland Writing Workshop with Ann Hood, DIRTY
2004 Community of Writers Screenwriting Program, DIRTY
2002 Community of Writers Screenwriting Program, FRAMED
Syracuse University, 1992, M.S. Television-Radio-Film
Catherine L. Covert Research Writing Award
Yale College, 1991, B.A. English (cum laude)
