Writer & Advocate

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 contradiction—a masters graduate with schizoaffective disorder—I write to 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 essays forthcoming in Third Coast and The Progressive. Honors include a Bread Loaf scholarship, three Hopwood Awards, and recognition from CRAFT, Fugue, and Cleaver.

I’m writing a lyric memoir on the experiences of women with mental health disabilities. I also offer editing for mental health narratives and lead “Writing to Heal” classes. Currently, I’m pursuing certification in journal therapy.

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

Pronouns: she/her/hers.