More about Megan

I’d love to share with you a bit more about me. Currently I live in Richmond, VA where I am a full-time student in an MFA program in Creative Writing and part-time working in parish ministry as a church’s assistant rector. I was ordained to the priesthood at 26 and spent my late twenties/early thirties in full-time ministry in Western Massachusetts, so navigating the weird wonderfulness of being a young clergywoman is a significant part of my life. While I’m just now doing my MFA, I’ve been writing poetry earnestly since college, and been writing fervently way before that. When I’m not doing something priestly or poetic, you might find me watching mindless television, drinking tea, getting too worked up about something I’ve read online. For several years in Massachusetts, I was very involved in improv and hope to return to that soon!

I am a graduate of Yale Divinity School, where, in addition to earning a Master’s of Divinity degree and a diploma in Anglican Studies, I graduated with a certificate from the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale. The ISM, as it’s known, is not only for musicians, but is a program for anyone dedicated to religion and the arts. I first studied religion and the arts together as an undergraduate at Susquehanna University, located in my home state of Pennsylvania. I entered college as a Creative Writing major set on being a published novelist by the time I graduated and left a Creative Writing-Religious Studies double major with passions for poetry and preaching.

I’ve been so happy that, in the past few years, my writing has made its way into publications that make space for faith and art to converse….and at quite a few publications that aren’t explicitly interested in that, but open to my work! I hope to have much more poetry to share with you all in the years ahead.