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Meghan Flaherty

Biography

Meghan Flaherty

Meghan Flaherty's first book, TANGO LESSONS, a personal history of Argentine tango, was published in June 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

She received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in literary nonfiction. Her essays and translations have appeared in The Iowa Review, Cactus Heart, The Intentional Quarterly, and online at The Rumpus, Asymptote, Treehouse, The New Inquiry and elsewhere. She lives with her husband, baby and her rescue mastiff in northern California, and enjoys purchasing vegetables in Romance languages around the world. 

Meghan Flaherty

Books by Meghan Flaherty

Tango Lessons: A Memoir
by Meghan Flaherty - Memoir, Nonfiction

Tango was an unlikely choice for Meghan Flaherty. A young woman living with the scars of past trauma, she was terrified of being touched and shied away from real passion. But by her late 20s, she knew something had to change. She dug up an old dream and tried on her dancing shoes. As Meghan moved from beginner classes to the late-night dance halls of New York’s vibrant tango underground, she discovered that more than any footwork, the hardest and most essential lesson of the dance was to follow with strength and agency; to find her balance, regardless of the lead. And as she broke her own rule --- never mix romance and tango --- she started to apply those lessons in every corner of her life.