Maegan Poland is a fiction writer who currently lives in Philadelphia. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, an MFA in Fiction from the University of Mississippi, and a BFA in Writing for Screen & Television from the University of Southern California, where she was a Trustee Scholar. She has served as Fiction Editor for Witness magazine and Managing Editor for Yalobusha Review. Her writing was awarded a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize XL anthology, and has been published or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Juked, Notre Dame Review, Day One, and LitHub.