Meghann Plunkett

Meghann Plunkett is a screenwriter and poet. Once an East coaster working at The New Yorker, she now finds herself based in Los Angeles. She was named a Best New Poet of 2018, the winner of the 2017 Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize, the Third Coast Poetry Prize, Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below Contest, and the North American Review’s Hearst Poetry Prize. She has also been anthologized in the 2017 Best of Net Anthology. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Best New Poets 2018, Third Coast, Pleiades, Rattle, Washington Square Review among many others. Her screen writing credits include Station 19 and Rebel and the short film “Zita Sempri”. She is currently adapting the novel “First Lie Wins” for television alongside Krista Vernoff and Octavia Spencer. Her poetry and prose can be found in various journals and in her new chapbook, “What We Did To Her Made The Water Rise,” which won the Black Lawrence Press Chapbook Prize.