Megan Alpert

Megan Alpert is the author of The Animal at Your Side, which won the Airlie Prize, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She’s a recipient of an Orlando Poetry Prize and her poems have appeared in Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Harvard Review, Verse Daily, and many others. She’s been a resident-fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Studios at Mass MoCA, and the Marquette Chamber Residency. As a journalist, she has reported for The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Smithsonian, and received fellowships from Foreign Policy and the International Women’s Media Foundation. She has a short story forthcoming in The Bennington Review.