Writer & Journalist

Meg LeDuc

Where mental health and difference shape luminous, slanted stories

A Detroit-based writer, I live with my husband and rescue cats in a small blue house where tulips still bloom among Queen Anne’s lace.

I tell lyrical, slanted stories where difference, beauty, and the luminous ordinary converge. A masters graduate with a mental health history, my creative writing and journalism explore life’s power differentials and profound transformations.

I earned a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and an Honors Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. My work appears in Brevity, Mount Hope, and Cleaver, with an essay recently published in HuffPost and another in Psychology Today. A personal essay is forthcoming from Third Coast Magazine. As an undergraduate, I won the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award three times. My writing has also been nominated for a Pushcart and been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. A two-time Cleaver Emerging Contest, I was a finalist in nonfiction contests in CRAFT and Fugue.

My memoir-in-progress is a coming-of-age story that traces a woman’s pursuit of motherhood in the context of mental illness.

A Michigan Press Association Award winner, I’m a former staff writer at a daily newspaper and current contributor to Issue Media Group’s MI Mental Health Series. I also offer editing for mental health narratives.

When not writing, I’m boxing, lifting weights, or cooking and baking—and never, ever measuring spices.

Pronouns: she/her/hers.