About Me
Writer & Advocate
Meg LeDuc
Born and raised in the Detroit area, I live with my husband and our three rescue cats in a small blue house where the odd tulip planted by the previous owners still blooms among the front yard’s Queen Anne’s lace.
I’m a writer and copywriter interested in telling lyrical, slanted stories where difference, beauty, and life’s luminous ordinary converge. I’m a contradiction—a Pushcart-nominated writer and master’s student who once was institutionalized in a group home—and I’m interested in exploring life’s profound contradictions, its power differentials.
I earned a BA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and attend Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing. I write personal essays, flash nonfiction, and lyric essays and create erasures that participate in stories being told about mental health issues from the perspective of my lived experience of schizoaffective disorder.
My memoir-in-progress is a nuanced portrait of a mind that works (and, consequently, a life lived) differently than most.
Since my time as an undergraduate, I’ve been a determined advocate for people with disabilities and those who are neurodivergent.
When I’m not putting pen to paper (figuratively, of course), I often can be found running. I love to experiment in the kitchen and never—ever—measure spices.
Pronouns: She/her/hers.
