Maegan Poland is a fiction writer and an assistant professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
She received her PhD in English from the University of Nevada, where she was a Black Mountain Institute PhD Fellow. She also holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Mississippi, as well as a BFA in Writing for Screen & Television from the University of Southern California, where she was a Trustee Scholar.
Her debut short story collection What Makes You Think You’re Awake? was selected by Carmen Maria Machado to win the Bakwin Award and was published by Blair Press in 2021. Her fiction has been published in Pleiades, Mississippi Review, Juked, Beloit Fiction Journal, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. She has received a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology, a Tin House scholarship, and a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She has served as Fiction Editor for Witness magazine and as a Managing Editor for Yalobusha Review.
Currently, she is working on a new short story collection and a novel.