Megan Harlan is an award-winning essayist, poet, and author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), awarded the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking, winner of the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her writing has been cited as distinguished in Best American Essays 2018, 2019, and 2021, published in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, American Poetry Review, and Colorado Review, and awarded the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize. She is the Editor of Farsickness Journal and writes The France House. For more, visit meganharlan.com.
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“What inspires my work—my muse—isn’t travel as much as my permanent residence, in the center of one of the world’s smallest, most misunderstood, most complicated, perhaps most contested and surprisingly heterogeneous countries: Israel.”
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“I saw sea stars clinging on sea stacks and tufted puffins walking like older men. It always comes back to water and animals and seeing animals in their habitats unbothered by humans.”
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“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be Elsewhere, anywhere other than where I was, and not because there was anything wrong with Here.”
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A writer explores his time in eastern Kazakhstan—meeting place of Russia and Central Asia—where Dostoevsky once served in the Czar’s army, wrote several early works, and left a legacy still felt today.
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