O'Rourke was born January 26, 1976, in Brooklyn, New York.[1] The eldest of three children born to Paul and Barbara O’Rourke, she had two younger brothers. Her mother was a longtime teacher and administrator at Saint Ann's, an elite independent school in Brooklyn, and later headmaster of the Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut. Her father, a classicist and Egyptologist, also taught at Saint Ann's and Pierrepont. O'Rourke attended St. Ann's through high school. She earned a bachelor's of arts degree in English language and literature from Yale University in 1997 and a master of fine arts degree in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2005.[1]
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Immediately after graduating from Yale, O'Rourke began an internship as an editor at The New Yorker.[1] She was promoted to fiction/nonfiction editor in 2000, becoming one of the youngest editors ever at the publication.[1] During this time, she also freelanced as a contributing editor of the literary quarterly Grand Street.[1] In 2002, O'Rourke moved to the online magazine Slate, serving as culture and literary editor until 2009 and as founding editor of DoubleX, a section of Slate that focused on women’s issues.[1] She also continued to moonlight with other publications; from 2005 to 2010 she was a poetry coeditor of the Paris Review.[2] She is also an occasional contributor to The New York Times. O'Rourke has written on a wide range of topics, including horse racing, gender bias in the literary world, the politics of marriage and divorce, and the place of grief and mourning in modern society. She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, The New Republic, and Poetry,[3][2] along with Perrine's Literatures Twelfth Edition.
O'Rourke's first book of poems, Halflife, was published by Norton in 2007. Her book The Long Goodbye, a memoir of grief and mourning written after her mother's death, was published to wide critical acclaim in 2011. On July 1, 2019, O'Rourke became editor of The Yale Review, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of its founding.[4]
O'Rourke suffers from an autoimmune disorder that she has written about for The New Yorker.[5] Her latest book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, was released in March 2022.[6]Publishers Weekly named it one of the top ten books of 2022, regardless of genre.[7] O'Rourke has been treated for Lyme disease.[8]The Invisible Kingdom details her decade-long struggle with it and with an autoimmune condition as well as the protracted process of obtaining a correct diagnosis. O'Rourke details how her symptoms were discounted by medical professionals, some of whom lacked empathy. The memoir is highly critical of the medical establishment, documenting its inadequacy in treating those with chronic medical conditions, especially those without a clear diagnosis.[9] The memoir was nominated for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction.[10]
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This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Meghan O Rourke news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message Meghan O Rourke born 1976 in Brooklyn New York is an American nonfiction writer poet and critic Meghan O RourkeBorn 1976 01 26 January 26 1976 age 47 New York City New York U S EducationYale University BA Warren Wilson College MFA Contents 1 Background and education 2 Career 2 1 Journalism 3 Awards and fellowships 4 Bibliography 4 1 Poetry 4 2 Memoirs 4 3 Anthologies 5 References 6 Sources 7 Further reading 8 External linksBackground and education editO Rourke was born January 26 1976 in Brooklyn New York 1 The eldest of three children born to Paul and Barbara O Rourke she had two younger brothers Her mother was a longtime teacher and administrator at Saint Ann s an elite independent school in Brooklyn and later headmaster of the Pierrepont School in Westport Connecticut Her father a classicist and Egyptologist also taught at Saint Ann s and Pierrepont O Rourke attended St Ann s through high school She earned a bachelor s of arts degree in English language and literature from Yale University in 1997 and a master of fine arts degree in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2005 1 Career editJournalism edit Immediately after graduating from Yale O Rourke began an internship as an editor at The New Yorker 1 She was promoted to fiction nonfiction editor in 2000 becoming one of the youngest editors ever at the publication 1 During this time she also freelanced as a contributing editor of the literary quarterly Grand Street 1 In 2002 O Rourke moved to the online magazine Slate serving as culture and literary editor until 2009 and as founding editor of DoubleX a section of Slate that focused on women s issues 1 She also continued to moonlight with other publications from 2005 to 2010 she was a poetry coeditor of the Paris Review 2 She is also an occasional contributor to The New York Times O Rourke has written on a wide range of topics including horse racing gender bias in the literary world the politics of marriage and divorce and the place of grief and mourning in modern society She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker Best American Poetry The New Republic and Poetry 3 2 along with Perrine s Literatures Twelfth Edition O Rourke s first book of poems Halflife was published by Norton in 2007 Her book The Long Goodbye a memoir of grief and mourning written after her mother s death was published to wide critical acclaim in 2011 On July 1 2019 O Rourke became editor of The Yale Review coinciding with the 200th anniversary of its founding 4 O Rourke suffers from an autoimmune disorder that she has written about for The New Yorker 5 Her latest book The Invisible Kingdom Reimagining Chronic Illness was released in March 2022 6 Publishers Weekly named it one of the top ten books of 2022 regardless of genre 7 O Rourke has been treated for Lyme disease 8 The Invisible Kingdom details her decade long struggle with it and with an autoimmune condition as well as the protracted process of obtaining a correct diagnosis O Rourke details how her symptoms were discounted by medical professionals some of whom lacked empathy The memoir is highly critical of the medical establishment documenting its inadequacy in treating those with chronic medical conditions especially those without a clear diagnosis 9 The memoir was nominated for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction 10 Awards and fellowships edit2005 Union League and Civic Arts Foundation Award from the Poetry Foundation 11 2007 Lannan Literary Award 12 2008 May Sarton Poetry Prize 13 2014 Guggenheim Award for General Nonfiction 14 2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her book What s Wrong With Me The Mysteries of Chronic Illness 15 Bibliography editThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items March 2018 Poetry edit CollectionsO Rourke Meghan 2007 Halflife poems New York W W Norton Once Poems New York W W Norton 2011 Sun In Days New York W W Norton 2017 List of poemsTitle Year First published Reprinted collectedNavesink 2017 O Rourke Meghan March 13 2017 Navesink The New Yorker Vol 93 no 4 p 55 My Life as a Subject 2008 O Rourke Meghan June 2008 My Life as a Subject Poetry 192 200 4 On Marriage 2008 O Rourke Meghan June 2008 On Marriage Poetry 192 205 Halflife 2005 O Rourke Meghan September 2005 Halflife Poetry 187 411 Sleep 2005 O Rourke Meghan September 2005 Sleep Poetry 187 410 Memoirs edit The Long Goodbye memoir New York Riverhead 2011 The Invisible Kingdom Reimagining Chronic Illness memoir Riverhead Books 2022 Anthologies edit ed A World Out of Reach Dispatches from Life Under Lockdown New Haven Yale University Press 2020 References edit a b c d e f Lightner Barb 2019 Literary Biographies Great Neck Publishing pp 1 3 a b Meghan O Rourke Biography Retrieved 2015 01 27 Poems Out Loud gt Meghan O Rourke Reads Spectacular Archived from the original on 2017 09 10 Retrieved 2009 04 01 Introducing the New Editor of The Yale Review Meghan O Rourke Literary Hub 2018 12 06 Retrieved 2018 12 06 What s Wrong with Me I had an autoimmune disease Then the disease had me Retrieved 2015 01 25 O Rourke Meghan 2022 03 01 The Invisible Kingdom Reimagining Chronic Illness Penguin ISBN 978 0 698 19076 4 Best Books 2022 Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly Retrieved 2022 10 27 The Mysteries of Chronic Illness Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University 2015 04 07 Retrieved 2018 05 27 Kelly Hillary 4 March 2022 Review How America fails chronically ill people in one memoirist s diagnosis Los Angeles Times Andrews Meredith 14 September 2022 2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction National Book Foundation Poets org Meghan O Rourke Retrieved 19 April 2014 Lannon org Meghan O Rourke Retrieved 19 April 2014 American Academy of Arts amp Sciences Recipients of the Poetry Prize in Honor of May Sarton Retrieved 19 April 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Meghan O Rourke Archived from the original on 19 April 2014 Retrieved 19 April 2014 Whiting Foundation 2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee Meghan O Rourke Whiting org Retrieved 24 January 2018 Sources editContemporary Authors Online The Gale Group 2006 Further reading editBrouwer Joel April 29 2007 Fields of memory The New York Times Review of Halflife External links editWebsite Official website Excerpt An excerpt from The Long Goodbye in The New Yorker Audio Meghan O Rourke reads Spectacular from the book Halflife via poemsoutloud net Audio Meghan O Rourke reading from Halflife at the Key West Literary Seminar 2008 mp3 15 44 Chemotherapy a poem by Meghan O Rourke published in Guernica Magazine Meghan O Rourke on Twitter Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Meghan O 27Rourke amp oldid 1180815432, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
