Megan Gillespie is a writer based in Nashville, Tennessee. Gillespie was the 2018 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Gillespie was a Pushcart Prize nominee and an Artist-in-Residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Gillespie poetry has been published at The Florida Review, Cimarron Review, and New Delta Review. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.