Meghan Adler

Meghan Adler is a poet whose voice has been shaped by the vibrant literary heart of New York. She honed her craft at The Writers Studio and was an artist-in-residence at the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Her work has been honored widely—receiving first prize in Lumina’s National Poetry Contest, judged by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, along with recognition in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, the Muriel Craft Bailey Contest, and the Rattle Poetry Prize. Her poems have earned nominations for the Pushcart Prize and found a home in journals such as Rattle, The North American Review, The Intima, Alimentum, Evening Street Review, Off the Coast, Pine Hills Review, and Trinity Review Magazine.

Meghan’s poetry has been featured in anthologies including Illuminations: Expressions of the Personal Spiritual Experience and A Terrible, Horrible, No Good Year: Hundreds of Stories on the Pandemic. One poem even graces a wine label for Eric Kent Wine Cellars, and two have been selected for the Arts Mid-Hudson Poets Respond to Art exhibitions.

Her debut collection, Pomegranate, invites readers into a world of fearless reflection and lyrical depth. Meghan also shares her love of language through The Things They Carry Project, where she volunteers as a writing instructor, co-leading free workshops for healthcare workers, first responders, and educators in collaboration with a compassionate community of writers and therapists.

Fearless, Honest, Blossoming: What Readers Are Saying About Meghan Adler’s Poetry

“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