Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O’Rourke is the author of the books The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness and The Long Goodbye, as well as the poetry collections Sun in Days, Once, and Halflife. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among other publications. O’Rourke is a former editor at The New Yorker and has served as culture editor and literary critic for Slate as well as poetry editor for The Paris Review. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and a Whiting Nonfiction Award, O’Rourke teaches at Yale University where she is the editor of The Yale Review.