12 Facts About Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O'Rourke was born on 1976 and is an American nonfiction writer, poet and critic.

The eldest of the three children of Paul and Barbara Meghan O'Rourke, she had two younger brothers.

Meghan O'Rourke's mother was a longtime teacher and administrator at Saint Ann's, an elite independent school in Brooklyn, and later headmaster of the Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut.

Meghan O'Rourke earned a bachelor's of arts degree in English language and literature from Yale University in 1997 and a master of fine arts degree in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2005.

Immediately after graduating from Yale, Meghan O'Rourke began an internship as an editor at The New Yorker.

In 2002, Meghan O'Rourke moved to the online magazine Slate, serving as culture and literary editor until 2009 and as founding editor of DoubleX, a section of Slate that focused on women's issues.

Meghan O'Rourke continued to moonlight with other publications; from 2005 to 2010 she was a poetry coeditor of the Paris Review.

Meghan O'Rourke is an occasional contributor to The New York Times.

Meghan O'Rourke has written on a wide range of topics, including horse racing, gender bias in the literary world, the politics of marriage and divorce, and the place of grief and mourning in modern society.

Meghan O'Rourke has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, The New Republic, and Poetry, along with Perrine's Literatures Twelfth Edition.

On July 1,2019, Meghan O'Rourke became editor of The Yale Review, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of its founding.

Meghan O'Rourke suffers from an autoimmune disorder that she has written about for The New Yorker.