Megan Harlan lived in seventeen different homes across four continents by the time she graduated from high school. She now lives in Berkeley, California. Recently Harlan's poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and Notre Dame Review. Harlan's short stories, travel writing, and book reviews have appeared widely, including in The New York Times, Alaska Quarterly Review, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere. She holds degrees in creative writing from NYU and Tufts. MAPMAKING is her first book.