Meghan O'Rourke is the author of
The Long Goodbye (Riverhead), a memoir about grief, and the poetry collections
Once and
Halflife (W.W. Norton). A former poetry editor for
The Paris Review, she is also a culture critic for
Slate magazine and a founding editor of the web site Double X. She is the recipient of the 2008 May Sarton Poetry Prize. Her essays and poems have appeared in
The New Yorker,
Poetry,
The Kenyon Review,
Best American Poetry,
32 Poems, and more. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she grew up.
