Megan Giddings is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. Her novel, Lakewood, was one of New York's 10 best books of 2020, one of NPR's best books of 2020, a Michigan Notable book for 2021, a nominee for two NAACP Image Awards, and a finalist for a 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction category. Her second novel, The Women Could Fly, was named one of The Washington Post's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy novels of 2022, one of Vulture's Best Fantasy books of 2022, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her work has received support from the Barbara Deming Foundation and Hedgebrook. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This biography was last updated on 09/08/2026.
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