In the lead up to Words & Women 2013 we will be posting profiles of
the readers, performers and artists who will be contributing to our events on
International Women’s Day.
The first is Megan who will be reading in the evening in the Fusion
Digital Gallery. Megan is the current Charles Pick Fellow at the University of
East Anglia. She graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature and
Creative Writing in 2004 and MA in Creative Writing Prose in 2005. Since
when, besides pursuing her own writing, she has worked as an editorial reader
and creative writing mentor.
Megan’s working on her first novel which documents the cultural
development of New York City through the lives and work of four major figures
from its history, namely the writer Edmund White, photographer Robert
Mapplethorpe, urban planner Robert Moses and poet Walt Whitman. An extract can
be found at
http://www.newwriting.net/writing/fiction/one-thing-about-robert-mapplethorpe.
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