M.P. NOLAN
MFA, MA, PhD
Meghan Punschke Nolan
is an American poet, writer and academic. She is Chair of the Honors Program and an Associate Professor of English at SUNY Rockland where she teaches composition and literature courses. Nolan has an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, and an MA and PhD in English from St. John's University. She has been the editor of many literary and art journals throughout the years, including Oranges & Sardines, MiPoesias, Ocho, Shalom Neuman: 40 Years of Fusion Art and the 2013 edition of the St. John’s Humanities Review. Her most recent book, The Crossroads of Crime Writing (academic) was published by Anthem Press in 2024. Her poetry was nominated for a pushcart prize in 2007, and her first book, Stratification, was published by BlazeVOX Books in 2008. She is a multigenre writer who focuses on fragmented perceptions of selfhood through academic works, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry; recent essays have appeared in Persona Studies, The 100 Greatest Literary Detectives, and Thread.
*NEW PUBLICATION*
"Reframing Writerly Identity with the Works of Fernando Pessoa and Other Modernist Poets" ​
Essay in
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Fernando Pessoa
(Modern Language Association, Spring 2025)
The essays in this volume explore questions raised by Pessoa about the nature of the self, the stability of the text, and the conflict between tradition and innovation. Part 1, “Materials,” describes editions, translations, and other resources. The essays in part 2, “Approaches,” address Pessoa’s works and delve into the author’s historical and cultural contexts, heteronyms and multiplicity, archives and editing processes, and connections with other authors and fields of study.
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THE CROSSROADS OF CRIME WRITING
ANTHEM PRESS
MARCH 5, 2024
This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural memory and/or deep mapping to facilitate this process.
REVIEW
What the Midwest Book Review says about The Crossroads of Crime Writing
A erudite, insightful, and thought-provoking compendium of ten original, seminal, and ground breaking studies, "The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces" is essential reading for novice and experienced crime fiction and true crime non-fiction novels and stories. With each of the ten extended articles including Notes and Bibliographies, as well as expertly co-edited by the team of professor Meghan P. Nolan and Rebecca Martin, this hardcover edition of The Crossroads of Crime Writing" from Anthem Press is unreservedly recommended as a highly prized addition to personal, professional, community, and college/university library collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted for aspiring authors with an interest in writing crime novels and true crime stories that "The Crossroads of Crime Writing" is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $26.49).
