Master of Fine Arts Visiting Writer

Megan Sexton

Megan Sexton is co-editor of Five Points: A Journal of Literature & Art and teaches in the Department of English at Georgia State University. Hercollection of poems, Swift Hour, received the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. Her poetry and nonfiction have been widely published in anthologies and journals, including Poetry, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, The Literary Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for the PEN/Newman First Amendment Award and has received a fellowship from the Hambridge Center. She lives in Decatur with her husband and daughter and plays drums in the Decatur-based band, The Skylarks.