Failure to Thrive

Meghan Lamb is the author of COWARD (2022), Failure to Thrive (2021) All of Your Most Private Places (2020) and Silk Flowers (2017). She served as the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, and teaches creative writing through the University of Chicago, Story Studio, and GrubStreet. Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, Redivider, and Passages North, among other publications.She runs the shadow text reading series Significant Others, a project dedicated to elevating new books and the behind the scenes texts that inspired them. In addition to being the fiction editor for Bridge, she develops the educational Portolan Project for the Speculative Literature Foundation, and serves as the nonfiction editor of Nat. Brut, a Whiting Award-winning journal of art and literature dedicated to advancing inclusivity in all creative fields.