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Meghan Reed is a New York-based writer from Arkansas. She is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program where she served as the Fiction Editor for Washington Square Review, and was previously the Associate Editor for Jabberwock Review.

Her work can be found in the Oxford American, where she was chosen as their 2022 debut writer, and in F(r)iction. Her story, “Where the Animals Sleep at Night,” earned an honorable mention in the 2024 Pushcart Prize Anthology.