In Volume Five: Chapter Three of the Program, we welcome Educator, Poet, and author of the chapbook The Autodidact, Meghan Malachi.

From Meghan's Website:

Meghan is the first-place winner of the Spoon River Poetry Review 2022 Editor's Prize Contest and a 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee. Her work is published or forthcoming in Milly Magazine, Rabid Oak, NECTAR Poetry, Pages Penned in Pandemic, giallo lit, and Writers With Attitude. Her first chapbook, The Autodidact, was published by Ethel Zine and Micro Press. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

​Meghan received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Providence College in 2016 and a Masters of Science in Mathematics from the University of Iowa in 2019. She has an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing from DePaul University, where she also works as a Graduate Assistant and Peer Writing Tutor. Meghan is the Creative Director of Indigo Sessions, an artistic series highlighting the works of Black women musicians and poets. She is an Associate Editor at RHINO magazine and a Programs Coordinator at the Guild Literary Complex.

Contact Meghan:

Website: meghanmalachiwrites.com

Instagram: @meghanbmal

Spoken Word Recording featured this Week:

Farah Habad - 2am in Marshall, TX

X: @habadfarah

Lady Brion - I Talk Black

Instagram: @ladybspeaks

Website: ladybrion.com

X: @ladybspeaks

Dasan Ahanu - I Love You

Instagram: @dasanahanu

Website: dasanahanu.com

Our Conversation with Dasan

Ephraim Nehemiah - 5 Stages of Grief for the Living

Instagram: @ephraimnehemiah

Our Conversation with Ephraim

Alysia Harris - Death Poem

Instagram: poppyinthewheat

Website: alysiaharris.com