Margaret Meehan is from Florida and lives in New York. Her fiction has appeared 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, a Woodward Residency, and Vermont Studio Center, where she received a full fellowship for the 2027 residency year.

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.

Currently, she works full-time as a creative director while completing a short story collection and a novel.