Meghan Miraglia + Heather Wright kick off our Winter Reading Series on January 20, 7:30 pm LIVE at the Gloucester Writers Center! All are welcome. We are thrilled to welcome Meghan and Heather for their debut readings at the GWC. Followed by a Q+A with the poets and a reception! 

Parking available on Chapel Street and at the North Shore Arts Association.

Meghan Miraglia (she/her) is a poet, educator, editor, teaching artist, and student at Salem State University. Her prose poetry explores femininity, embodiment, apocalypse, mythology, mother/nature, and off-kilter saviors. Work/house, her chapbook printed in-house at Salem State, is a hybrid creative-research poetry collection exploring narratives of pauper inmates living in Irish workhouses during the Great Famine. Her work also appears in The Broadkill Review, Words & Whispers, Borrowed Solace, Red Skies, and the 2022 Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Festival Chapbook. She will graduate in May of 2023 with a Bachelor’s degree in English and Secondary Education.

Heather Wright is a poet, parent, small business owner and graduate student of Literary Studies at Salem State University ‘23. She recently completed a thesis on the narrative process rememory in My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid, and is currently working a poetry manuscript centered on the US South and regional identity. Heather is currently the managing editor of Soundings East journal and a senior tutor at the Mary G. Walsh Writing Center.