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Meghan O’Rourke

Meghan O’Rourke is a poet, memoirist, and editor. She is the author, most recently, of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, as well as the memoir The Long Goodbye and three books of poems, including Sun in Days (2017), which was named a Top Ten Poetry Book of the Year by The New York Times. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Whiting Nonfiction Award, and a Front Page Award for Cultural Criticism, among other honors, she is a professor of creative writing at Yale University and the executive editor of The Yale Review.