The short story: Kirsten Meehan is a writer with a BFA in Creative Writing and a Minor in Journalism from SUNY Potsdam. While there, she helped to re-found Potsdam’s student newspaper, the Racquette, and served as everything from staff writer to editor-in-chief on that staff. She currently works as a production assistant and a freelance writer, among other things, and has also worked in publicity in the past. Kirsten writes a bit of everything and would like to write a bit of everything else.
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The longer story: Kirsten is from a suburb of New York City. One time, when she was in middle school, a teacher had a revelation: “Kirsten, you’re dyslexic!” To this, Kirsten said, “Cool. I’m going to be a writer.”
She went to SUNY Potsdam to study writing. She completed a BFA program that takes most 4.5 years to finish in 3.5 years, and graduated with a 3.90 GPA. While learning the ins and outs of poetry and prose and finding her voice in both, Kirsten also tapped into her love of journalism. She helped rebuild the school’s student-run newspaper from the ground up as a freshman, and in her 3.5 years on the staff served as staff writer, copy editor, photographer, news editor, managing editor, community editor, sports editor, college life editor, editor-in-chief, and publisher. She made some people take notice of what the paper was doing.
She took on an internship at Wunderkind PR, Inc. the summer before her last semester at school, and was kept on as a part-time employee specializing in press release writing, blog coordination, Instagram content, and research. She’s worked on the campaigns for books out of Macmillan/Tor Books, Simon and Schuster/Saga Press, Harper Collins 47North and Top Shelf Productions.
Her time with them came to an end when she was offered a publishing assistant job at a medium-sized press in New York City. She spends her days proofreading, coordinating, and laying out books. She has, so far, done pretty well in achieving her childhood dream of ‘reading for a living.’
Kirsten also has a passion for performance poetry, comics, and very occasionally theater.
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