Meghan Vigeant

Meghan Vigeant’s essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in Stonecoast Review, Multiplicity, Island Journal, Maine Boats, FEM, Hole in the Head Review, and the anthology Balancing Act 2. She has been a writer in residence at Monson Arts, earned her MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, and studied radio documentary at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland.

From 2009 to 2011, Meghan served as the Island Institute Fellow on Swan’s Island where she produced a series of oral history documentaries and wrote a collection of profiles, Guts, Feathers, and All: Stories of Hard Work and Good Times on Swan’s Island, Maine, published by Island Institute. Her audio productions have aired on various public radio outlets, and she is a winner of the 2008 Third Coast International Audio Festival’s Short Docs.

Since 2013, Meghan has provided book and audio production services to individuals and organizations—everything from ghostwriting to copy editing to podcasting. She has interviewed hundreds of people, turning their recordings into books and audio documentaries, including the memoir Only Human: A Journey from Convict to Mentor, co-authored with Alton Lane.

As a storyteller, Meghan has performed at the Common Ground Fair, The Corner, Sweet Tree Arts Story SLAM, Rockland’s Kin, and the Midcoast Women’s Collective Voices.

Meghan is a teaching artist with the Telling Room, where she teaches creative writing and storytelling to young Maine writers online and in classrooms around the state.