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Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O’Rourke is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, the best-selling memoir The Long Goodbye, and three poetry collections, most recently Sun in Days. She teaches creative writing at Yale University and is executive editor of the Yale Review.

Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O’Rourke is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, the best-selling memoir The Long Goodbye, and three poetry collections, most recently Sun in Days. She teaches creative writing at Yale University and is executive editor of the Yale Review.

Books by Meghan O'Rourke

  • Halflife: Poems

    Meghan O'Rourke

    Paperback, 2008

    "Magnificent." —New York Times Book Review
  • Once: Poems

    Meghan O'Rourke

    Paperback, 2013

    “The poems in Once illuminate and echo themes of loss and grief.”—Vanity Fair
  • Sun in Days: Poems

    Meghan O'Rourke

    Paperback, 2019

    Named a Best Poetry Book of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review, Sun in Days is “O’Rourke’s most ravishing and brilliant collection yet” (Cathy Park Hong).
  • Sun in Days: Poems

    Meghan O'Rourke

    E Book, 2017

    Named a Best Poetry Book of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review, Sun in Days is “O’Rourke’s most ravishing and brilliant collection yet” (Cathy Park Hong).