About

photo of Megan Giddings, taken by Jon Cameron — Megan Giddings

is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. In Fall 2023, she’ll be the Picador Professor at Leipzig University. Her novel, Lakewood, was published by Amistad in 2020. It was one of New York Magazine’s 10 best books of 2020, one of NPR’s best books of 2020, a Michigan Notable book for 2021, was a nominee for two NAACP Image Awards, and a finalist for a 2020 LA Times Book Prize in The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction category. Her second novel, The Women Could Fly (Amistad 2022), 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.
(photo by Jon Cameron)

You can find me on Twitter as @megiddings.

Currently reading: Queer Hagiographies by Audra Puchalski; End of the World House by Adrienne Celt; The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Recently read: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

For more information about Lakewood or The Women Could Fly, you can contact my publicist Paul Olsewski at Amistad/HarperOne.

You’re interested in the foreign or film/TV rights to Lakewood or my second novel, The Women Could Fly? Well, thank you! And also, you should email my agent, Dan Conaway.

Hey! I won’t be able to take on requests for blurbs from September 21st 2023—January 10th 2024.