megan-milligan
American
Megan Milligan moved from Oklahoma to Las Vegas in 1992. Poetry has been her calling since graduating from Cheyenne High School in 1993. Megan has been involved in the local poetry scene for nearly 15 years. / / Together with Mark Snyder & Lucy Botwick, she co-hosts Word UP!, Las Vegas' longest-running weekly poetry reading, since 2002. Megan has been published in several journals and the upcoming "VIVA: A Vegas Poets' Anthology", due out November 2011 at the Vegas Valley Book Festival. She also serves as secretary of the Las Vegas Poets Organization, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting poetry in and of Las Vegas. / / She describes her poetry as the "musings of a Desert Rose," the struggles of love, life and being a survivor.
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