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Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the collections Halflife and Once, and a memoir, The Long Goodbye. A former editor at The New Yorker, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for Slate as well as poetry editor for the Paris Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Poetry, the New Republic, and Poetry, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and other awards, she lives in Brooklyn.


Meghan O’Rourke on the Self-Dissolving Difficulty of Chronic Illness

Searching for the Self Amid Pain
March 3, 2022  By Meghan O'Rourke
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Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

Meghan O'Rourke on the Need for More Representation
October 5, 2017  By Meghan O'Rourke
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“Idiopathic Illness” a New Poem by Meghan O’Rourke

From the New Collection Sun in Days
September 26, 2017  By Meghan O'Rourke
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