Meghan Malachi

Meghan Malachi is a poet and writer from The Bronx, New York. She is the first-place winner of the Spoon River Poetry Review 2022 Editor's Prize Contest and runner-up of the 2024 Princemere Poetry Prize. Her poetry collection, No Lace Fronts in Iowa City, was selected by Allison Joseph as runner-up of Madville Publishing’s 2024 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. Meghan has been a finalist for the Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, the Trio Book Award, the Hilary Tham Capital Collection, and the 2024 Gasher Press Book Award. She is a 2026 SAFTA Summer Fellow and a 2026 Chicago Women's History Center Writing Fellow. She is an Associate Editor at RHINO. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.