Meghan K. Barnes is an American memoirist, essayist, editor, and children's novelist. Barnes was born in Somers Point, New Jersey and grew up in the Atlantic City, New Jersey area. She attended the University of North Carolina Wilmington and received her BFA in Fiction in 2009 and her MFA in Non Fiction in 2011. She worked as the nonfiction editor for Gloom Cupboard Literary Magazine from 2009-2011. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in nonfiction in 2010 and in fiction in 2010. Published works ;Anthologies * "Johnny Panics’ Plague." Yes I Can. Rachel Random. Wilmington, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. * "Fighting Fate for the Flames." Thoreau’s Rooster. Megan Kellett. Worcester, MA: Assumption Press, 2009. * "Red Ryder." Writers Block. Wilmington, NC: Pub Lab Press, 2009. ;Journals * “Trains & Spaces,” (Short Fiction) The Del Sol Review, October, 2011 * “How I Discovered My Creative Process,” (Essay) The Polycultural, September, 2011 * “Liese Chavez Interview,” Gloom Cupboard, September, 2010 * “Kristina Darling Interview,” Gloom Cupboard, August, 2010 * “Mad World,” (Essay) Gloom Cupboard, March, 2010 * “Red Ryder,” (Short Fiction) Gloom Cupboard, February, 2010 * “Fighting Fate for the Flames,” (Essay) Charlotte Viewpoint, January 2010
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