Meaghan Mulholland's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in National Geographic, HuffPost, Salon, Playboy, Day One, and Harvard Review, among other publications. She's been awarded a Creative Writing Fulbright to Italy, a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Scholarship, and was a finalist for a Sustainable Arts Foundation award. She has an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arkansas. She lives in North Carolina with her family.
At MacDowell in 2011, Mulholland worked on revising her novel about a family of Sicilian puppeteers. She went to Sicily initially on a Fulbright Fellowship in 2005 to study the traditional marionette theater, inspired by her research for National Geographic Magazine.
During her 2024 residency, she spent time revisiting and organizing years of interviews, research and reporting while also drafting several chapters of her book about critically endangered red wolves—fewer than 20 of which remain in the wild—and the little-known, controversy-plagued experiment in re-wilding that brought them back from extinction once before in her adopted home state of North Carolina.
