Margaret Meehan is from West Palm Beach, Florida, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship and taught in the undergraduate creative writing department as a Teaching Fellow.

Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in Southwest Review, The Common, Fence, Joyland, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading. She was a prize winner in the Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition, judged by Téa Obreht. Her work has received support from Tin House, the Hemingway House, where she was a Writer-in-Residence, and a Woodward Residency.

She started writing fiction in 2017 after over a decade of working for various publications and fashion brands. Currently, she works full-time as a senior copywriter while completing a short story collection and a novel.