Megan Levad is the author of Why We Live in the Dark Ages, the first selection in Tavern Books’ Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series, and What Have I to Say to You, forthcoming from Tavern in October 2017. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Granta Online, Boston Review, and Fence, among other publications, and her first opera, Kept: A Ghost Story, written with composer Kristin Kuster, premiered in May 2017 at the Virginia Arts Festival. At MacDowell, she began War Movie, a novel in poems about the ways that domestic life is shaped by the trauma of war, the violence of agriculture, and the pressure of global markets. She also edited the final version of What Have I to Say to You. She is currently working on War Movie.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Megan Levad
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
More:
www.meganlevad.com
On "Auto-Tune," from Why We Live in the Dark Ages
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"I'm More the Drunken Slut Kind of Feminist" in Granta's F-Word Issue
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Studios
Phi Beta
Megan Levad worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…