Livia Meneghin

After being involved with Mass Poetry in multiple smaller capacities in the past, Livia Meneghin is delighted to serve the Mass Poetry community as a 2027 Poetry Coalition Fellow, supported by the Academy of American Poets. She is the author of two chapbooks: feathering (Bottlecap Press, 2025) and Honey in My Hair (Finishing Line Press, 2018). She is Cofounder and Managing Editor at Two Cardinals Literary. At Sundress Publications, she serves as Assistant Chapbook Editor. Her poem, “Reply to a COVID-related Reasonable Accommodation Decision Notification Letter,” was the winner of the Breakwater Review‘s 2022 Peseroff Prize, selected by torrin a. greathouse. Her poem, “What should be safe,” was selected for 2nd Place in The Room Magazine’s 2023 Poetry Contest by judge John Elizabeth Stintzi. Her poem, “For Alison, After a Walk,” was nominated for Best New Poets 2022 and 2023 Best of the Net anthologies by Thrush Poetry Journal. Her poem, “knotted” won a 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize. Other individual poems, book reviews, and writing have found homes in Adroit, The Colorado Review, Honey Literary, The Rumpus, Solstice Literary Magazine, So to Speak: A Feminist Journal, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. Since earning her MFA in poetry, she teaches writing and literature at the collegiate level while studying to become a librarian. Livia enjoys focaccia genovese, women’s sports, bird watching, gardening, learning how to crochet, and hiking (very slowly). She is a cancer survivor.