Megan Fishmann

Megan Fishmann is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. She received her B.A. from Bard College in 2005 and was a Henry Hoyns Fellow, receiving her MFA in Fiction from UVA in 2010. In 2012, she was a Sewanee Writer's Conference attendee.

You can contact Megan at mfishmann@gmail.com

Follow her on Twitter at @mfishmann

Check out what she's talking about on Tumblr

See what books she's reading on GoodReads

FICTION:

"The House on Blackburn Avenue" via Five Chapters (February 2013)
"The Last Itako" via "The Hook" (September 2010; Contest Prize Winner)

FEATURES:

PureWow:

"Read it and Reap: A book-of-the-month tailored to you" (April 2013)
"Word Up: Out-of-the-Ordinary Spring Literary Events" (April 2013)
“In Brief: Our Favorite Authors to Follow on Twitter” (February 2013)
"Core Curriculum: Take to the Barre Online" (March 2012)
"Soeur Subject: Brooklyn Decorators with a Sense of Nostalgia" (February 2012)
"Deconstruction Worker: Shannon South's jacket-to-bag creations" (February 2012)

Daily Candy:

"13 Books that Celebrate SF" (May 2013)

TheHairpin:

"The Writer-Groupie Experiment" (March 2012)

Brit + Co.:

"15 Ways to Infuse Sunshine in your Life" (February 2012)

Algonquin Books Blog:

March Poetry Roundup (March 2012)
The Return to the Nest Syndrome (March 2012)
February Poetry Roundup (February 2012)
January Poetry Roundup (January 2012)
What We're Reading: Why We Broke Up (January 2012)
What We're Reading: Spousonomics (October 2011)
Reader's Block: Childhood's Forbidden Pleasures (August 2011)
What We're Reading: The Red Market (June 2011)
What We're Reading: Alexandra Styron's Reading My Father (April 2011)
What We're Reading: The Tiger's Wife (March 2011)
Happy Mardi Gras! How to Make a King Cake (March 2011, video included)
Like My Jacket? Paperback vs. Hardback (November 2010)
Detroit Diary: The GLIBA Trade Show (October 2010)
What We're Reading: Freedom (September 2010)
First Reading, First Date (September 2010)

Virginia Quarterly Review:

"Wrapped Up in the Loss of Print" (May 2010)
"John Grisham and the Short Story" (December 2009)
"Punk Poet Jim Carroll Passes Away" (September 2009)
"Thomas Wolfe's 'Old Catawba' in VQR" (July 2009)

INTERVIEWS:

PureWow

Mary Roach (April 2013)

BookPage:

Nichole Brenier (June 2012)
Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan (May 2011)

Algonquin Books Blog:

Jay Varner (September 2010)
Shannon Ravenel (August 2010)
Amy Hempel (August 2010)
Wells Tower (August 2010)
Kathy Pories (August 2010)

BOOK REVIEWS:

PureWow:

"Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg (March 2013)

BookPage:

"A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" by Anthony Marra (April 2013)
"Amity & Sorrow" by Peggy Riley (April 2013)
"Mary Coin" by Marisa Silver (March 2013)
"The Love Song of Jonny Valentine" (February 2013; Fiction Top Pick)
"Eight Girls Taking Pictures" by Whitney Otto (December 2012)
"The Heart Broke In" by James Meek (October 2012)
"The Mirrored World" by Debra Dean (September 2012)
"Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon (September 2012)
"Some Kind of Fairy Tale" by Graham Joyce (July 2012)
"The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D." by Nichole Brenier (June 2012)
"Calling Invisible Women" by Jeanne Ray (May 2012)
"The Year of the Gadfly" by Jennifer Miller (May 2012)
"The Red Book" by Deborah Copaken Kogan (April 2012)
"Carry the One" by Carol Anshaw (March 2012)
"The Flame Alphabet" by Ben Marcus (January 2012)
"The Last Nude" by Ellis Avery (January 2012)
"Mrs. Nixon" by Ann Beattie (December 2011)
"Queen of America" by Luis Alberto Urrea (December 2011; Fiction Top Pick)
"The Night Strangers" by Chris Bohjalian (October 2011; Fiction Top Pick)
"We the Animals" by Justin Torres (September 2011)
"The Magician King" by Lev Grossman (August 2011)
"The Very Thought of You" by Rosie Alison (July 2011)
"Ladies and Gentlemen" by Adam Ross (July 2011)
"Never Knowing" by Chevy Stevens (July 2011)
"Witches of East End" by Melissa de la Cruz (June 2011)
"The Astral" by Kate Christensen (June 2011)
"You Are Free" by Danzy Senna (May 2011)
"The Uncoupling" by Meg Wolitzer (April 2011)

PRESS:

Interview with Caroline Leavitt

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