Meghan Malachi is a poet and writer from The Bronx, New York. She is the first-place winner of the Spoon River Poetry Review 2022 Editor's Prize Contest and runner-up of the 2024 Princemere Poetry Prize. Her collection No Lace Fronts in Iowa City was selected by Allison Joseph as runner-up for Madville's 2024 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. Her chapbook The Autodidact was published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press. Meghan has an MS in Mathematics from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing from DePaul University. She is an associate editor at RHINO and lives in Chicago, Illinois.