Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O’Rourke began her career as one of the youngest editors in the history of The New Yorker.Her essays, criticism, and poems have appeared in Slate, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Redbook, Vogue, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry. O’Rourke is also the author of the poetry collections Once (2011) andHalflife (2007), which was a finalist for both the Patterson Poetry Prize and Britain’s Forward First Book Prize. The Long Goodbye is her first memoir.