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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.

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*NEW BOOK*

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.

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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).

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NEW WORKS

"THE INVOLUNTARY MASKS OF THE POET: EXAMINING THE EVOLUTION OF THE POET PERSONA THROUGH P.D. JAMES'S ADAM DALGLIESH"

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Essay in

Persona Studies


December 2021

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NEW WORKS

"Institutional Paradox in the City: Duality, Domiciles, and Death in Dickens’s London"

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Essay in

Mean Streets: A Journal of American Crime and Detective Fiction


May 2021

Pace University Press

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NEW PERFORMANCES

M.P. Nolan will perform her poem, "Cultural Memory" as a part of the Writing the Walls 2024 exhibit (Hudson Valley MOCA)

M.P. Nolan performs her piece on mosaicist Jeanne Reynal as a part of A Single Thread (Tutti Bravi Productions)

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