Biography

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Megan Arkenberg is an award-winning writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her work has appeared in over fifty publications, including Asimov's, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Clakesworld, and in anthologies such as The Apocalypse Triptych, Heiresses of Russ, and The Best Horror of the Year. Her stories have been translated into Chinese and Japanese. She also writes speculative poetry, and her long poem "The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages" won the 2012 Rhysling Award.

 

Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, Megan currently lives in California. In 2023, she completed a PhD in English literature at the University of California, Davis with a dissertation titled "Problems of Life and Mind in Late Victorian Speculative Fiction." Her research and teaching focus on British literature of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, literature and science, the history of psychology and neurology, the Gothic, and Queer Theory.

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From 2008-2023, Megan procrastinated on writing and research by editing the fantasy e-zine Mirror Dance. In 2015, she edited the nonfiction for Queers Destroy Horror!, a special issue of Nightmare. When she's not working with words, she enjoys museums, live theater, interior decorating, and walking in the vicinity of trees or large bodies of water. As of 2020, Megan sells dollhouse miniatures at TheLyfSoShort on Etsy.