Maegan Shea

Maegan Shea
  • Faculty
  • Assistant Professor of Creative Writing

Biography

Maegan Shea publishes under the name Maegan Poland. Her debut short story collection What Makes You Think You’re Awake? was selected by Carmen Maria Machado to win the Bakwin Award and was published in 2021 by Blair Press. Her fiction has been published in Mississippi Review, Pleiades, Beloit Fiction Journal, Juked, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. Maegan Poland is an Assistant Professor at the 鶹ҹ.

Education

Ph.D. in English
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

M.F.A. in Fiction
University of Mississippi

B.F.A. in Writing for Screen & Television
University of Southern California

Student Research/Collaboration

  • Fiction Writing
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Modernist Fiction
  • Creative Nonfiction

Publications

  • What Makes You Think You’re Awake? (Blair Press, June 2021)
  • “Mr. Fixit.” Ghost Parachute: 175 Flash Fiction Stories (print/reprint). Spring 2026.
  • “Empty Houses.” Monkeybicycle (online). September 2025.
  • “Mr. Fixit.” Ghost Parachute (online). September 2025.
  • “Milking.” Mississippi Review (print). Volume 47. Number 1&2. Summer 2019.