Meghan McGuire is a multi-genre writer and former Geography Bee champion from Brunswick, Maine, the home of little-known Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. 

Her pilot The Way Life Should Be was a semifinalist for the 2023 Stowe Story Labs / Bellem Entertainment Fellowship and a quarterfinalist for the 2021 Slamdance Screenwriting Competition, 2022 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Screenwriting Lab and 2022 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards. It also received an Honorable Mention in the Finish Line Script Competition. Her second pilot Under the Influence was a Second Rounder for the 2022 Austin Film Festival Script Competition. Her essays have been featured on Lunch Ticket’s blog and in Porter House Review.

She studied theatre and creative writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. At Denison, she wrote for the Independent Theatre Association’s One Acts Play Festivals, Sketch’rs Sketch Comedy Troupe, and the Genital Monologues, an activist show. She is currently working towards her MFA in Creative Writing at Antioch University Los Angeles with a concentration in creative nonfiction.

Born in Alaska, raised in Maine, and schooled in Ohio, Meghan followed her passion for cold places to Chicago where she lives with her cat, Pippin, and her various neuroses. She is a graduate of the Columbia College/Second City Comedy Studies Program, The Second City Conservatory, and the Annoyance Training Center. Her work has been performed on stages in Illinois, Ohio, Texas, and Maine.

Meghan is passionate about highland cows, the smell of pine, and singing along to musical theater albums in the car.