Megan Harlan is an American writer and author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction and critically acclaimed in The New York Times, Kirkus, Booklist, and elsewhere. Her first book, Mapmaking, was awarded the John Ciardi Poetry Prize and called “a miracle of invention” by Alice Fulton. Her writing has been cited four times in Best American Essays, awarded the Arts & Letters Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and published in AGNI, The New York Times, River Teeth, Crazyhorse, TriQuarterly, Los Angeles Review, Poetry Daily, Colorado Review, The Smart Set, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere. Megan lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brittany, France. She is a longtime French learner but speaks a little Arabic, Spanish, Texan, BBC English, and Valley Girl from her years growing up around the world.