Megan Giddings--Bards in the Arb ReadingApril 25 at 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Megan Giddings is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. She was the Fall 2023 Picador Professor at Leipzig University. Her first novel, Lakewood, was a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize and two NAACP Image Awards. It was a Michigan Notable Book for 2021, one of NPR's Best Books of 2020, and one of New York Magazine's Best Books of 2020. Megan's second book, The Women Could Fly was a New York Times Editor's Choice, was featured on Late Night with Seth Meyer and was named The Washington Post's Best Fantasy Novel of 2022. Her work has received support from Hedgebrook and the Barbara Deming Foundation for Feminist Fiction.