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Meagan Nyland
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Meagan Nyland MFA

Director of Experiential Learning & Senior Lecturer of English
English | School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Education

  • MFA Creative Writing and Publishing Arts, University of Baltimore with honors
  • B.S. Mass Communications: Television and Radio, Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville Dean’s Scholar, Cum Laude
  • B.A. English, Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville Dean’s Scholar, Cum Laude

Professional Experience

  • Stevenson University
    • Senior Lecturer & Director of Experiential Learning, 2023-Present
    • Senior Lecturer, 2015- present
    • Stevenson Summer Writers’ Workshop:
      • Director 2018 – present
      • Co-Director, 2017
      • Teacher 2014-2015
    • Adjunct of English, 2010-2015
    • Course Redesign Institute Co-Director 2012 
  • StraighterLine, Inc.
    • Freelance Grader, 2013 – 2025
    • Norming and Assignment & Course Design 2020-2024 
  • Towson University
    • Adjunct of Academic Literacy, 2014-2015 
  • Carroll Community College
    • Adjunct of English, 2009 – 2015
    • Writing Lab Tutor, 2010 
  • Village Learning Place
    • Summer Enrichment Teacher 2009
      • Comic Books
      • Bookmaking 
  • Weight Watchers
    • Leader, 2009 -2010 
  • Barnes & Noble University Booksellers
    • Trade Publication & Online Ordering Manager 2009 
  • Penultimate Press
    • Editor’s Assistant, 2007 
Committee Work
  • Stevenson University
    • Faculty Welfare, 2021 – Present
  • Carroll Community College
    • Academic Council Adjunct Representative 2014/15
    • Senate Adjunct Representative 2013/14
Volunteer & Enrichment
    • UDL & YOU, Spring 2025
    • Innovative Grading and Group Work with Rivka Glaser, Spring 2024
  • Global Game Jam
    • Site Organizer, 2017 – present
    • Faculty Mentor
    • 2012 Faculty v.s. Student Basketball game for the American Cancer Foundation
    • Course Redesign Institute Attendee, 2011
  • Certificate of Online Adjunct Teaching
  • AWP
    • Participated in “On the Same Page” Free Mind’s service project, 2017
  • AFACCT
    • Presented “Getting into the Grove of Group Work,” 2014
    • Attendee, 2013, 2014, 2015
  • MCAPD
    • Attendee, 2011, 2012, 2013
  • 2011 Roar of the Robots Lego League Presentation Judge at Carroll Community College
  • Village Learning Place
    • Community Enrichment Teacher in Creative Writing, 2009
Advising
  • Creative and Scholarly Student Works Grant
  • Capstone Advisor

Publications

Fiction is written under Meagan Noel Hart

  • “Spa-ntinaity” Defenestration, 20 Aug 2023
  • “How to Break a Dragon’s Heart” Fudoki Magazine, 18 Feb 2021
  • Writing Alone and Other Group Activities, Scribes Divided, Nov 2020
    • Managing Editor​ & Chapter Author
    • Contributing author on:
      • “Dead Air”​
      • “Bridge Over Trouble Waters”
      • “Seeds of Hope”
      • “Hail Mary, Hail Marie”
    • Author of “Essential Friendships”​
  • “Quantum Love Letters” Twist in Time 1 July 2019, Nominated for Pushcart Prize
  • “The Art of Reproduction”, Daily Science Fiction, 4 April 2019
  • “Slipping Gears” Literally Stories March 2019
  • “No Pockets” Unlikely Stories Mark V March 10 2019
  • “A Broken Heart at Dawn”
    Dread Naught But Time 2018
  • “A Minor Discrepancy” The Corvus Review, Spring/Summer Issue: July 1st, 2018
  • “A Spicy Admirer” A Wink and a Smile, part of Smoking Pen Press’s Read on the Run Series 2018
  • “Counting Stars,” and “We Are Lions” Writings to Stem Your Existential Dread, A Scribes Divided Anthology 2018
  • Upcoming 2018 publication of “The Time Between Us” Fiction War Summer, Finalist 2017
  • “Bacha Posh” East Jasmine Review Fall 2017
  • “Writing Horror with a Pulse” Guest post at Writing Belle, October 31st, 2017
  • 5 Stories with the team Sneaky Little Scribes in 72 Hours of Insanity, 2017 edition​
    • “Heavy Petting” Story Idea, Co-author
    • “Derailed” Story idea, Co-author
    • “The Silent Treatment,” Co-author
    • “Bobby and Zack” Editor
    • “The Last Chapter” Story Idea, Head Author
  • “The Mermaid of Braxton Bay” 72 Hours of Insanity, 2017 edtion
  • “The Not So Unthinkable Brenda Lee” Mothers Always Write, May 2017 — Nominated for Best of the Net!
  • “The Silent Truth” Unusual Pet Tales, Part of the Read on the Run Series 2017
  • Whispers & Fangs, Collection of Short and Flash Ghost and Horror Stories, 2016
  • Twisted Together, Flash & Short Story Collection 2010, 2016
  • A Short Stack of Silly Shorts for the Morally Sidetracked, Collection of Humorous and Bizarre Flash Stories, 2008, 2012, 2016
  • “You, Me, and the Blackbird” University of Baltimore 10th Anniversary Chapbook, 2015
  • “Bequest” Everyday Fiction, 2013
  • “Better off Gone” Welter, Spring 2009
  • “If I Were a Bird” Young Author’s national poetry award winner. Poem toured country.

Teaching

Prof. Nyland teaches a wide array of courses in digital humanities, publishing, creative writing, and first year writing. This includes:
  • ENG 115: Introduction to Literature
  • ENG 152 College Writing 2
  • ENG 206/281: Video Game as Literature
  • ENG 224 Introduction to Creative Writing,
  • ENG 225: Writing Video Games & Other Interactive Stories

Highlights

  • 2022 Global Game Jam Scholar
  • Writers Workout Teams Champion 2017, 2018 Team Captain 2018 Nominated Best of the Net 2017 by Mothers Always Write for her poem “The Not So Unthinkable Brenda Lee”
  • Fiction War Finalist, Summer 2017

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