Megan Alpert – Guest Artist

Megan Alpert’s book, The Animal at Your Side, won the Airlie Prize and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.  Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review, Harvard Review, and many others. She has been a resident-fellow at The Studios at Mass MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Marquette Chamber Residency. As a journalist, she has reported for The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Smithsonian and received fellowships from Foreign Policy magazine and the International Women’s Media Foundation. She has a short story forthcoming in the Bennington Review.