Meghan Dunn is the author of Curriculum, winner of the 2020 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches high school English. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, Four Way Review, and Southern Humanities Review, among others. She is a four-time recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.

Books by Meghan Dunn:

Other poems on the web by Meghan Dunn:
Two poems
"Rise"
"In the Rec Field at Camp Nazareth"

Meghan Dunn's Website.

Meghan Dunn on Twitter.

About Curriculum:

"In Meghan Dunn's incisive debut, we encounter a speaker both student and teacher. These poems delve into the moments that forged her, while offering timely accounts of trying to shepherd students through America's dark racial history, bearing witness to modern-day lynchings, active shooter drills, and the shock of classmates dead far too soon. Beautifully crafted, every lesson bears surprises: "Cartography" is a study in the landscape of bodies and drift of borders; "Foreign Language," in the difficulty of holding another's grief; "Grammar Lesson," in the moments that reveal us as less than the person we'd most like to be. In Curriculum, all of life, with its many loves and losses, is on the syllabus, and like the best classes, these poems reintroduce us to wonder, making us students again of a world we thought we already knew."
—Jessica Jacobs