M.P. NOLAN
MFA, MA, PhD
Meghan Punschke Nolan
is an American poet, writer and academic. She is Chair of the Honors Program and an Associate Professor of English at SUNY Rockland where she teaches composition and literature courses. Nolan has an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, and an MA and PhD in English from St. John's University. She has been the editor of many literary and art journals throughout the years, including Oranges & Sardines, MiPoesias, Ocho, Shalom Neuman: 40 Years of Fusion Art and the 2013 edition of the St. John’s Humanities Review. Her most recent book, The Crossroads of Crime Writing (academic) was published by Anthem Press in 2024. Her poetry was nominated for a pushcart prize in 2007, and her first book, Stratification, was published by BlazeVOX Books in 2008. She is a multigenre writer who focuses on fragmented perceptions of selfhood through academic works, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry; recent essays have appeared in Persona Studies, The 100 Greatest Literary Detectives, and Thread.
*NEW BOOK*
THE CROSSROADS OF CRIME WRITING
ANTHEM PRESS
MARCH 5, 2024
This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural memory and/or deep mapping to facilitate this process.