Author: Megan Harlan

About Megan Harlan

Megan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking, awarded the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her writing has been cited as distinguished four times in Best American Essays and published in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. She edits Farsickness Journal and writes The France House. For more, visit meganharlan.com.

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Mosquito

A lyric essay on the writer’s relationship to this most-maligned pest—from the sweltering Winnipeg summers of her childhood to amber beads prized by her Ukrainian immigrant parents.

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Four Questions on Farsickness: Heather Diamond

“In each place I have been immersed in new circles of friends, new families, and new ways of thinking. I’ve been forced to introspect, not always willingly, and have had to figure out how to belong all over again. My work reflects the resultant struggles and epiphanies.”

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WHAT IS FARSICKNESS?

Farsickness explores place through creative writing: An online journal of literary travel.

The word “farsickness” translates from fernweh (Ger.): a yearning for distant places.

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