In a coastside classroom where one of the teachers decided to display my poem.

Selected Poems

“Death on Lake Pontchartrain,” Muse Literary Journal, Winner of the 2024 Holden Vaughan Spangler Award, June 2024

“Hold Like Water,” Black Fork Review, Spring 2023

“Part of Me Out of Me,” Winner, Belmont Poetry Prize. Also published by Moonstone Arts Support Ukraine Anthology Spring 2022

“Life at the Center,” Selected by the 2019-2022 Poet Laureate of San Mateo County Aileen Cassinetto to celebrate the year anniversary of the painting of Middlefield Mural by Jose Castro

“Little Girl Growing Up,” Forum Magazine, Spring 2019

Projects

Megan has been involved in a number of community-poetry projects, often in collaboration with the local poetry and spoken-word open mic Speakers’ Space and has been invited to read her work for radio and television.

She also has extensive experience supporting a wide range of writers, from high school students to doctoral candidates, in applying for scholarships, in writing personal statements for admission to colleges and universities, and in professional editing, revision, and resubmission of their work to academic journals.