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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Lincolnshire’s Literary Worlds

“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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Four Questions on Farsickness: Anne Goldman

“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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Four Questions on Farsickness: Suzanne Roberts

“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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Island of Oblivion

“I felt like I was waking from a long dream that was both fantastic and scary, unsure of where I had been but convinced that I had crossed a border during the night.”

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Icelandic Saga Love Story

“I surely was not a war story kind of person, I believed; nor was I on board with the classic Viking ethos of pillage now, apologize never. But then I opened to the first page of Njal’s Saga—and slid effortlessly into the social scene of southern Iceland a thousand years earlier.”

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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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