Megan Grumbling is a writer, editor, librettist, filmmaker, and teacher living in Portland, Maine.

Megan’s second poetry collection, Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, an expansion of her libretto for an experimental opera, was released by Acre Books in fall 2020. Her first collection, Booker's Point (UNT, 2016), an oral history-driven portrait of an old Maine woodsman, was awarded the 2015 Vassar Miller Prize and the 2017 Maine Book Award for Poetry. She is co-director/producer of the 2023 documentary film We Are The Warriors, winner of the Tourmaline Prize of the 2023 Maine International Film Festival.

Awarded the Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Robert Frost Foundation Award, her poetry appears widely in literary journals. Megan also writes theater criticism, book and film reviews, journalism, and essays. Her work is deeply influenced by stories, documentary modes, and the natural world.