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Authors - Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the poetry collection "Halflife" (W.W. Norton), the culture editor of Slate, and a poetry editor at the Paris Review.

Her poetry and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, Poetry, the New York Review of Books and many other publications.

In 2005 she was awarded the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Award for poetry. O'Rourke lives in Brooklyn.