Meg Files

Meg Files is the author of the novels Meridian 144 and The Third Law of Motion, Home Is the Hunter and Other Stories, The Love Hunter and Other Poems, Writing What You Know, a book about taking risks with writing, and a poetry chapbook, Lit Blue Sky Falling. Her novella, A Hollow, Muscular Organ, is forthcoming this year. She edited Lasting: Poems on Aging. Her stories and poems have appeared in publications including Fiction, Writers’ Forum, Oxford Magazine, The Tampa Review, Miramar, and Crazyhorse. She has been a Bread Loaf fellow and the James Thurber Writer-in-Residence at The Ohio State University. She has taught creative writing at colleges and universities, including Pima College, where she directed the Pima Writers’ Workshop. She directs the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and Masters Workshop.