Kirsten Meehan is a poet based in Nyack, NY. She was born and raised in the area, growing up in the same house her father grew up in. Her work has been featured in The Dillydoun Review, Mistake House, Wild Roof Journal, and Barzakh Magazine, among others. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing with a minor in Journalism from SUNY Potsdam, and both an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University.
Her Masters work focused on a dual application of queer theory and human geography, attempting to articulate a “queered” sensibility of place that expands, resists, and problematizes the traditional Space/Place binary articulated by the phenomenological/experiential lens lens of human geography (and how the field can be made richer with the addition of queer narratives and experiences).
Kirsten has worked as a teaching assistant creating literature curriculum, an adjunct writing professor at Westchester Community College, and as a personal writing and literacy tutor to students K-12. She has also led generative writing groups (with Nyack-based All Ways Writing and others), workshops, open mics, and more.
Professionally, she’s written and edited stories for local and national magazines, press material for books published by Macmillan/Tor Books and Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, website copy for small businesses, and hyper-local news features. While attending SUNY Potsdam, she re-founded the student newspaper, the Racquette, and served as everything from staff writer to editor-in-chief on that staff (and got some people to take notice). Kirsten currently works as the assistant editor at Wainscot Media.
Kirsten is dyslexic. She lives with her cat and her partner.
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