Writer & Journalist

Meg LeDuc

Where mental health and difference shape luminous, slanted stories

I'm a Detroit-based writer who lives with her 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 a 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 forthcoming from Third Coast Magazine. My writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and honored with three Hopwood Awards, a Michigan Press Association Award, and recognition from CRAFT, Fugue, and Cleaver.

My memoir-in-progress, Big Desire: Madness and the Quest for Motherhood, is a coming-of-age story about my descent into psychosis and relentless pursuit of motherhood—even at the risk of my sanity.

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 never, ever measuring spices.

Pronouns: she/her/hers.