About Meghan

Meghan B. Malachi is a Black Puerto Rican poet from the South Bronx. She loves pop music, window shopping, and examining the pop cultural zeitgeist.

Meghan is the first-place winner of the Spoon River Poetry Review 2022 Editor’s Prize Contest and the runner-up of the 2024 Princemere Poetry Prize. She is a Pushcart Prize Nominee and a finalist for the Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, the Hilary Tham Capital Collection, and the 2024 Gasher Press Book Award.

Her work is published or forthcoming in Spoon River Poetry Review, Quarterly West, South Florida Poetry Journal, and Writers With Attitude. Her first chapbook, The Autodidact, was published by Ethel Zine and Micro Press.

Meghan has undergraduate degrees in English and Mathematics from Providence College, an MS in Mathematics from the University of Iowa, and an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing from DePaul University. Meghan is the Creative Director of Indigo Sessions, an artistic series highlighting the works of Black artists from Chicago. She is an Associate Editor at RHINO Poetry and a Programming Coordinator at the Guild Literary Complex. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.