Meg Kearney's most recent book of poetry for adults is Home By Now (Four Way Books 2009), winner of the PEN New England L.L. Winship Award and a Finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year. Her first collection for adults, An Unkindness of Ravens, was published by BOA Editions in 2001. Kearney is also author of three young-adult verse novels (all by Persea Books) and an award-winning picture book titled Trouper (Scholastic). In the past, her poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Poetry East, Cave Wall, Post Road, and The Kenyon Review. Natasha Trethewey chose her poem "Grackle," first published in The Massachusetts Review, for the 2017 Best American Poetry anthology. She is founding director of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program and lives in New Hampshire.