“Two Pajama Tops” in Southwest Review, 2024
“A More Suitable Helen” in The Common, 2023
“Vomit Goat” in Fence, Issue 40, 2023
“Alice” in Joyland, 2021
Fifth Prize in the 2020 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition
A sharp, funny, living voice engines this hair-raising story. We read it with a sense of hope—though for what, we’re never sure, and this destabilizing effect is part of the writer’s magic. The ending blew me away. —Téa Obreht
“A Beautiful Wife is Suddenly Dead” in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, 2020
A Beautiful Wife is Suddenly Dead” is a story about the consequences of living outside the moment…. Remarkably, it is Meehan’s first published piece of fiction. Remarkable because the story is confident, experienced.
Nominated for the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
Meehan subtly guides our attention by creating an unflinching portrait of an unlikeable woman who dreams of living at the center of a more dramatic life. We’re consuming her like she consumes true crime. But she’s not like those other true crime girls. The story dares you to care about Karen, to care about whether or not she gets what she wants.