Megan Stielstra

About Megan

Megan Stielstra is the author of three collections: Everyone Remain Calm, Once I Was Cool, and The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, and a winner of the Nonfiction Book of the Year Award from the Chicago Review of Books. Her work appears in the Best American Essays, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Believer, Poets & Writers, Tin House, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A longtime company member with 2nd Story, she has told stories for National Public Radio, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and theatres, festivals, and classrooms across the country. She is an acquiring editor at Northwestern University Press and teaches creative nonfiction for StoryStudio, where she was the 2024 Teacher of the Year.

https://www.meganstielstra.com/