Bio
Megan Muthupandiyan is a writer, visual artist, and public humanities scholar who teaches in the University of Wisconsin Superior Writing Program. As the founding director of Poetry in the Parks (poetryintheparks.org), much of her creative enterprise celebrates how individuals' participation in their land communities fosters their ecological consciousness. Her chapbook Of the Earth and Other Desires was awarded the John Rezmerski Manuscript Prize in 2023 and two of her chapbook manuscripts have been semi-finalists for Wolfson Press's poetry prize.