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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“Although my travel throughout Europe had been extensive, I was over 50 when I visited Borobudur on Java. On the plane coming home, words starting coming in a rush, so fast I was hardly able to keep up.”
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“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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“Rooted since March 2020 in Lincolnshire, my oft-neglected, staunchly rural, and relentlessly flat home county…I’ve spent much of my time thinking about both physical and imaginary spaces…”
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“I will never forget the sense of intoxication I felt each time I chose a new Underground station at which to surface from the darkness of the tunnels and found myself in the often cloudy light at some storied monument or iconic lane or mews or crescent or street.”
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“Travel in general has been inspirational to me, whether that’s been my own backyard or on the other side of the planet, but when I look at where most of my writing is concentrated, it’s in Latin America, India, and the UK.”
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