Ashling Meehan-Fanning is a poet and writer whose work often includes themes of magic, ancestry, and the American Midwest. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Augsburg University in Minneapolis, where she worked as a publishing staff member at Howling Bird Press.
Meehan-Fanning’s collection COLOSSAL GIRL was self-published in January 2021. Her works appears or is forthcoming in Gotham Literature, the Galway Review, Elixir Verse, Roi Faineant Literary Press,and elsewhere. Her poem “Cottage at Ballintemple” was read on The Poet Heroic, and in 2026 her poem "Grown in the Garden" was given honorable mention by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.
She lives in Madison with her wife and spends a lot of time thinking about ghosts and trees.
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