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Meghan O’Gieblyn

Biography

Meghan O’Gieblyn

Meghan O’Gieblyn is a writer and the author of GOD, HUMAN, ANIMAL, MACHINE, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology. Her first book, INTERIOR STATES, won the 2018 Believer Book Award for nonfiction.  Her criticism and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, n+1, The Point, The Baffler, Wired, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The New York Times and other publications

Meghan O’Gieblyn

Books by Meghan O’Gieblyn

Will and Attention: A Memoir
by Meghan O’Gieblyn - Memoir, Nonfiction

After leaving evangelical Christianity in her early 20s, kicking an addiction and building a life as a writer, Meghan O’Gieblyn was admired by her friends for having a strong will. Then, after 11 years of sobriety, she began drinking again. In WILL AND ATTENTION, O’Gieblyn captures those perplexing days. Soon after her return to sobriety, she looked to a series of spiritual texts for answers and began putting them in conversation with her life. The book tracks her pursuit as she practices social distancing among the academics and artists of her Midwestern college town; traces her evangelical roots at a Bible camp on the dunes of Lake Michigan, and reminisces about her early years lost to drinking. Faced at midlife with the temptation to blow it all up, she seeks the grounding consolations of marriage, friendship, political engagement and art. She makes a case for finding beauty in what is good.