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    Meghan O'Rourke

    Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the collections Sun in Days, Halflife, and Once, as well as a memoir, The Long Goodbye. A former editor at The New Yorker, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for Slate, poetry editor for the Paris Review, and is currently the editor of The Yale Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Poetry, the New Republic, and Poetry, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and other awards, she lives in Brooklyn.

    Meghan O'Rourke

    Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the collections Sun in Days, Halflife, and Once, as well as a memoir, The Long Goodbye. A former editor at The New Yorker, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for Slate, poetry editor for the Paris Review, and is currently the editor of The Yale Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Poetry, the New Republic, and Poetry, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and other awards, she lives in Brooklyn.

    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).

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