Meghan Maguire Dahn
Lecturer
BA, University of Connecticut; MA, University of Connecticut; MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts
Areas of Interest: Creative Writing, poetry and poetics, ecopoetics, archives and material culture, hybrid forms, building research methods for marginalized groups
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Meghan Maguire Dahn is the author of Domain (selected by Jennifer Chang for the Burnside Review Press Award, 2022) and the chapbook Lucid Animal (winner of the Harbor Review Editor’s Prize, 2021). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Boston Review, the Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Fence, Gettysburg Review, the Iowa Review, Lana Turner, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Northwest, among others. She was selected for the 2017 Best New American Poets anthology by Natalie Diaz and she was a winner of the 2014 Discovery/92ndStreet Y Poetry Prize (judges: Rosanna Warren, Susan Mitchell, and John Ashbery).
Her current projects include a manuscript of poems written from the intersection of her research into the environmental crisis and neurodiverse family dynamics, an article-in-progress on the mid-20th century painter and poet Sonja Sekula and the challenges of archival research on marginalized figures, and building pedagogical approaches to working through creative lineage.
At Fordham, she teaches in Composition, Creative Writing, and Public and Professional Writing. She is also the Editor of English News.