Meghan honed her craft at The Writers Studio in New York and served as an artist-in-residence at the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. She was awarded first prize in Lumina’s National Poetry Contest, judged by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins; given Honorable Mention and Editor’s Choice in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards; nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry; named a Finalist in the Muriel Craft Bailey Award Contest; given Honorable Mention in the Rattle Poetry Contest; and was a winner in the Poets 11/San Francisco Public Library Poetry Contest. One of her poems is now featured on a wine bottle for Eric Kent Wine Cellars, others are included in anthologies, Illuminations: Expressions of the Personal Spiritual Experience, and A Terrible, Horrible, No Good Year: Hundreds of Stories on the Pandemic. Two of Meghan’s poems were recently chosen by the Arts Mid-Hudson Poets Respond to Art exhibitions over the last few years. Her poetry has also appeared in Alimentum, California Quarterly, Evening Street Review, Gastronomica, Glint, The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, The North American Review, Off the Coast, Pine Hills Review, Rattle, and Trinity Review Magazine. Pomegranate is her first book of poetry and is available for purchase here. She volunteers her time as a writing instructor for The Things They Carry Project, a new community of writing teachers and psychotherapists, who co-lead free writing workshops for healthcare workers, first responders, and educators.
“She invites us in and then carries us deeper.” Ellen Bass
“Fearlessness and loss co-exist in Meghan Adler’s poems; honesty and a keen self-awareness do, too.” Randall Mann
“Through an ingenious deployment of botanical metaphors, Adler’s candid and capacious poems
explore the development of a woman and a poet from seed to plant to blossom to fruit.” Dean Rader
Detail from Meghan Adler’s poem, "Hope in Books,” from Arts Mid-Hudson Poets Respond to Art Virtual Gallery Tour