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Meghan Reed is a New York-based writer from Arkansas and a graduate of NYU’s MFA program, where she served as Fiction Editor for Washington Square Review. Previously the Associate Editor for Jabberwock Review, she is now a Reader for Split Lip Magazine and a Publishing Assistant at Book Post USA.

Her work appears in the Oxford American, where she was their 2022 debut writer, and in F(r)iction. Her story, “Where the Animals Sleep at Night,” earned an honorable mention in the 2024 Pushcart Prize Anthology.