Description
Book SynopsisSam Meekings is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is the author of
Under Fishbone Clouds (2011, called a poetic evocation of the country and its people' by the New York Times),
The Book of Crows (2012), and
The Afterlives of Dr Gachet (2018). He has a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University, UK, and has taught writing at NYU (Global Campus) and the University of Chichester, UK. He is co-editor of the volumes
Place and the Writer (Bloomsbury, 2021),
The Scholarship of Creative Writing (2024) and
The Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century (2026)
, all with Bloomsbury Academic. He researches issues of identity in grief narratives, and the practices and processes of digital storytelling.
