Meaghan Delahunt was born in Melbourne, Australia. She lived for many years in Edinburgh, Scotland and now lives on the island of Naxos in Greece.
Her work has been widely translated and anthologised. Her fiction has attracted international awards and critical acclaim.In 1997 she won the Flamingo/HQ National Short Story Prize in Australia. Awards for her novels In the Blue House ( 2001), The Red Book (2008), To the Island (2011) and The Night-Side of the Country (2020) include a regional Commonwealth Prize, a Saltire Award and a nomination for the Orange Prize. Her short story collection, Greta Garbo’s Feet & Other Stories (2015) was longlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize 2016.
She’s an experienced creative writing teacher and mentor in both academic and community settings. She’s worked as a Creative Writing Tutor at the PPW Hospice in Glasgow and for St Columba’s Hospice in Edinburgh. She’s been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Dundee and Queen Margaret University, and has been a lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrews and Stirling Universities. More recently she has been a tutor on the Oxford University MSt in Creative Writing course.
Meaghan was a judge of the International Dublin Fiction Award in 2016.
In 2020 she set up WordPath Scotland online Creative Writing courses with fellow writer Kirsty Gunn (currently on pause.)
She is a qualified Hatha and Yin Yoga teacher and founded Yoga for Bhopal with The Bhopal Medical Appeal.
Please contact her if you would like individual mentoring or group creative writing sessions.
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