Writer and Teacher

Meg Pokrass

Meg Pokrass is the author of eight flash fiction collections, two award-winning collections of hybrid prose, and two novellas-in-flash.

Her books include Damn Sure Right (Press 53, 2011), The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down (Etruscan Press, 2015), My Very End of the Universe: Five Novellas in Flash and a Study of the Form (Rose Metal Press, 2015), Alligators At Night (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2018), Triple #12 (Ravenna Press, 2019), Alice In Wonderland Syndrome (V. Press, 2020), The Dog Seated Next to Me (Pelekinesis, 2020), The Loss Detector, a novella-in-flash (Bamboo Dart Press, 2021), Spinning to Mars (Blue Light Press, 2021), and co-author of The House of Grana Padano, with Jeff Friedman (Pelekinesis Press, 2022), Disappearing Debutantes (with Aimee Parkison, Finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Fiction), Breath and Shadow: Six Sentence Stories (with Robert Scotellaro, from MadHat Press) and The First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories  (forthcoming from Dzanc Books in September 2024).

Her stories have been published in New England Review, Five Points, McSweeney’s, Passages North, Washington Square Review, Electric Literature, Best American Poetry, Plume, Waxwing, Wigleaf, Smokelong Quarterly and have been included in more than 800 literary journals and anthologies, including The Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50 (4 times), 3 Norton Anthologies of flash fiction: Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015) and New Micro (W. W. Norton & Co, 2018) and Flash Fiction America (W. W. Norton & Co, 2021).

Meg is the Co-Founder of Flash Fiction Festival UK, Co-Founder of The Flash Fiction Collective Reading Series (San Francisco), Founding Editor of New Flash Fiction Review and the Founding Series Co-Editor of the Best Microfiction Anthology Series, Festival Curator for Flash Fiction Festival, U.K., and Columnist (Flash Challenge Judge and creator) at Mslexia Magazine and serves as Chief Judge for the Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction and the Scottish Arts Trust’s new True Flash Award. She has judged The Bath Flash Award, The Bath Novella-in-Flash Award, CRAFT Flash Prose Prize, Fractured Literature’s Reprint Prize, and many other international prizes for fiction.

Meg is an American writer living in Inverness, Scotland.