about

Meghan McGuire is a writer and recovering buzzkill from Brunswick, Maine, the home of little-known Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. 

She is a contributing writer to Sunny’s Journal & Press, and her writing has been featured in Chicago Review of Books, Lunch Ticket, Porter House Review, and Fan Boy zine. Her television pilots have been recognized by Stowe Story Labs, Slamdance Screenwriting Competition, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Screenwriting Lab, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, and Austin Film Festival Script Competition. Her plays and monologues have been performed on stages across the United States. In another life, she was a sketch comedian and improviser at places like the Crowd Theatre, the Second City Training Center, and the Annoyance.

She holds an MFA in Creative Writing at Antioch University Los Angeles with a concentration in creative nonfiction.

Born in Alaska, raised in Maine, and schooled in Ohio, Meghan followed her passion for cold places to Chicago where she lives with her cat, Pippin. She is currently working on a memoir.