Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O'Rourke at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.

Meghan O'Rourke (born 1976 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet, critic, and a contributing writer for the online magazine Slate. She is a graduate of Yale. O'Rourke was formerly a fiction editor at The New Yorker and from 2005-2010 was poetry co-editor at The Paris Review. She is also an occasional contributor to The New York Times. O'Rourke has written on a wide and eclectic range of topics, including horse racing, gender bias in the literary world, the politics of marriage and divorce, and the place of grief and mourning in modern society. She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, The New Republic, and Poetry.^[1] Her first book of poems, Halflife, was published by Norton in 2007. O'Rourke's book, The Long Goodbye, a memoir of grief and mourning written after the death of her mother, was published to wide critical acclaim in April 2011. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Books

• Halflife: Poems, poetry (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007).^[2]
• The Long Goodbye, memoir (New York: Riverhead, 2011).
• Once: Poems, poetry (New York: W. W. Norton, forthcoming 2011).

References

Sources

• Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006.

External links

• Website: Official website
• Excerpt: An excerpt from The Long Goodbye, in The New Yorker.
• Audio: Meghan O'Rourke reads "Spectacular" from the book Halflife (via poemsoutloud.net)
• Audio: Meghan O'Rourke reading from Halflife at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008. (.mp3 / 15:44)
• "Chemotherapy," a poem by Meghan O'Rourke published in Guernica Magazine
• Meghan O'Rourke on Twitter

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