Author of the article

Megan Falley [she/her] is the author of three full-length collections of poetry [most recently “Drive Here and Devastate Me”] the chapbook “Bad Girls, Honey [Poems About Lana Del Rey]” and the co-author of “How Poetry Can Change Your Heart" by Chronicle Books. A former National Poetry Slam and Woman of the World Poetry Slam Champion, since Falley has braved into prose she’s been selected as the winner of the 2021 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest, and the runner-up for Phoebe Journal’s 50th Anniversary Nonfiction Prize. She is the creator of the online writing course, Poems That Don’t Suck.