Description:
Award winning poet, Megahn Sterling's lush collection poems about growing up in rural Tennessee and family secrets. These textured poems inhabit the writer's dreamlike memory and brilliant imagination.
Brief description: Multi-Pushcart Nominee Meghan Sterling (she, her, hers) hasbeen published or has work forthcoming in Meridian, HungerMountain, The Los Angeles Review, Rhino Poetry, Rattle, ColoradoReview and many other journals. She has been a HewnoaksFellow and a Dibner Fellow. Her first full length collectionThese Few Seeds (Terrapin Books) came out in 2021 and was anHonorable Mention for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize inPoetry. Her chapbook, Self Portrait with Ghosts of the Diaspora(Harbor Editions), her second full length collection, View froma Borrowed Field, which won the Paul Nemser Poetry Prize (LilyPoetry Review) and her third full-length collection, Comfort theMourners (Everybody Press) all came out in 2023. She lives inMaine with her family, works as a professional writer and teachespoetry workshops. Read her work at meghansterling.com.