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Megan Milks

Visiting Instructor

Department
Writing
School
School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Email
mmilks68@pratt.edu
Phone
718.687.5770
Website
Author Website
Pronouns
They/Them/Their

Biography

Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, and Slug and Other Stories, a revised second edition of their award-winning collection Kill Marguerite, both published by Feminist Press in 2021. Their personal history of early online music fandom, Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, was published in 2021 as part of Instar Books’ Remember the Internet series. With Marisa Crawford, they co-edited the anthology We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers (Chicago Review Press, 2021); with KJ Cerankowski, they co-edited the academic volume Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Routledge, 2014; revised and expanded second edition published in 2024). Their essays and criticism have been published in The New York Times, 4Columns, Bookforum, and other venues. They live in Brooklyn and also teach writing at The New School and in the Low-Residency Creative Writing MFA program at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Education

Ph.D., English Studies with Creative Writing Concentration, University of Illinois at Chicago

M.A., Literature and Creative Writing, Temple University

B.A., English and Cognitive Science, University of Virginia

Publications and Projects

Books

The Squeeze: Essays on Milk. Essay collection forthcoming from Feminist Press in 2025.

Slug and Other Stories. Short fiction collection (revised second edition of Kill Marguerite). Feminist Press, November 2021.

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body. Feminist Press, September 2021.

Kill Marguerite and Other Stories. Short fiction collection. Emergency Press, March 2014.

Tori Amos Bootleg Webring. Nonfiction book. Instar Books: Remember the Internet series, September 2021.

 

Edited Volumes

Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition. Co-edited with KJ Cerankowski. Routledge, March 2024.

We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers, co-edited with Marisa Crawford, Chicago Review Press, July 2021.

The &Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, 2011-2013, Lake Forest College/&NOW Press, March 2015.

Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Co-edited with KJ Cerankowski. Routledge, March 2014.

 

Chapbooks

Kicking the Baby. Essay. Another Planet Press, 2019. 20 pages.

The Feels. Crossgenre. Black Warrior Review2, Spring/Summer 2016. 30 pages.

Two-story chapbook. Birds of Lace Press. December 2012. 45 pages.

Kill Marguerite. Single-story chapbook. Another New Calligraphy, May 2009. 64 pages.

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