NHBF Author: Meg Kearney

Meg Kearney’s ninth book, Cardiac Thrill—a heroic crown of sonnets—was published in fall 2025. Meg’s All Morning the Crows, winner of the Washington Prize, spent six months on SPD’s poetry bestseller list in 2021. Meg is also author of Home By Now, winner of the PEN New England Winship Award; an award-winning picture book; and three verse novels for teens. Her work has been featured in Best American Poetry and on Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac” and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry.” Meg is founding director of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.