Meghan Guidry is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in English from Merrimack College and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Some Other Magazine, The Ugly Couch, What’s Up, Spare Change, The Deli New England, The Merrimack Review, and The Pitkin Review. She is a featured essayist in Greenwood Press’s anthology Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia. Additionally, she is contracted with Empty City Press, where her debut novel Light and Skin is available in Axiom Radnor: Year One.

Professionally, Meghan’s background is rooted in working with a diverse collection of nonprofit organizations as a teacher, coordinator and consultant. Currently, she is the coordinator for K-2 programming at the Pierce School Extended Day Program in Brookline, Massachusetts. Meghan is affiliated with Write Out Loud: Transforming our Lives through Writing our Truths, where she serves as a consultant and grant writer. Meghan is also a member of the collective board of the Mouthful Open Mic Series, a spoken word open mic dedicated to finding and encouraging young, emerging authors to boldly share their voices. Meghan has taught creative writing through the Center for New Words’ Reluctant Writer’s Workshop, through Write Out Loud’s Sacred Spaces Conference and through Cambridge’s Creative Action Project, an organization that mentors high school girls and encourages community engagement and dialogue through artistic endeavors. 

Of her new role with Juventas, Meghan says, “I’m truly thrilled to be involved with this organization. While I am not a musician or a composer by training, I believe the core mission of Juventas—to encourage the development of new music by young, living composers and to engage a wider audience in that music through performances and meaningful dialogue—is one of vital importance, not just for the evolution of music, but for the trajectory of new art. To connect an audience to something real, viable, kinetic and ever-developing, this is truly a goal to which all artists can aspire and contribute.”