Meghan O’Rourke

Meghan O’Rourke is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness and The Long Goodbye, as well as three collections of poetry. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and a Whiting Nonfiction Award, she resides in New Haven, where she teaches at Yale University and is the executive editor of The Yale Review.
Black-and-white photo of Ellen Bryant Voigt writing at her desk in 2015

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Four poets remember a singular mentor
Catherine Barnett,
Victoria Chang,
Meghan O’Rourke,
and
Carl Phillips
October 28, 2025
Black and white photograph of lecture hall desks in a semi-circle

A View from Here

Trump's attacks on higher education and the work of a little magazine
Meghan O’Rourke
April 23, 2025

Garth Greenwell

The novelist on writing about the body in crisis
Meghan O’Rourke
September 4, 2024

Teju Cole

An Introduction to the 2024 Finzi-Contini Lecture
Meghan O’Rourke
June 10, 2024

Miranda July

The novelist on the difference between emotional honesty and autobiography
Meghan O’Rourke
May 13, 2024

Resurfacing Gems from the Archives

Announcing our new weekly feature
Meghan O’Rourke
March 13, 2024

Louise Glück

The poet who taught me to write books
Meghan O’Rourke
October 18, 2023

Charles Simic

Remembering a great poet and friend
Meghan O’Rourke
January 13, 2023
Introduction

Ten Years of the Windham-Campbell Prizes

Michael Kelleher
and
Meghan O’Rourke
December 6, 2022

Vivian Gornick

The acclaimed essayist looks back on her career
Meghan O’Rourke
December 1, 2021