Megan Giddings
is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. 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 finalist 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. In Fall 2023, she was the Picador Professor at Leipzig University. Her third novel, Meet Me at the Crossroads, was one of NPR’s Books We Love in 2025, one of Town and Country’s 20 Best Books of 2025, one of The Ottawa Citizen’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2025, and one of The Washington Post’s Best Science Fiction/Speculative Novels of 2025. Her first short story collection, Black Arts, was published in September 2026.
(photo by Jon Cameron)
You can find me on Bluesky as @megiddings.bsky.social
For events or requests in support of Meet Me at the Crossroads (June 3, 2025) or Black Arts (September 8, 2026, please email Paul Olsewski (Harper Collins/Amistad).
You’re interested in the foreign or film/TV rights to any of my three novels? Well, thank you! And also, you should email my agent, Dan Conaway or my film/tv agent, Sanjana Seelam at WME.
I’m taking a break from blurbing books between October 1-December 15.