Meg Kearney's first collection of poetry, An Unkindness of Ravens,was published by BOA Editions in October 2001. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Agni, The Gettysburg Review, DoubleTake, Black Warrior Review, and the anthologies Urban Nature, Where Icarus Falls, The Poets Grimm, Shade (forthcoming, Four Way Books, 2005), and The Book of Irish American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present (forthcoming, Notre Dame Press, 2005). Meg's poetry collection for teens, My Life as a Mistake, will be published by Persea Books in late 2005 or early 2006. She received an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2001, and the Alice M. Sellers Academy of American Poets Prize in 1998. She is Associate Director of the National Book Foundation in Manhattan.