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Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and the best-selling memoir The Long Goodbye, both of which have been widely translated. In her cultural criticism, she writes about AI, grief, the body, and unpacks oversimplified cultural narratives. Her most recent book of poems, Sun In Days, was named a Top Ten Poetry Book of the Year by the New York Times; her debut Halflife was a finalist for Britain’s Forward First Book Prize. Both a writer and an editor, she previously worked as an editor at The New Yorker, Slate, and The Paris Review, and launched the Slate Audio Book Club, one of America’s first literary podcasts. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Whiting Nonfiction Award, a Front Page award, and other honors, she is a professor of creative writing at Yale University and the editor of The Yale Review.

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