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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, in her late 30s, she began secretly attending Catholic mass and meeting with a priest to discuss conversion. After 11 years of sobriety, she began drinking again. Both returns --- to organized religion and to alcohol --- felt to her like a regression, a personal defeat. Knowledge and determination had proven useless when it came to her most vexing personal battles. In WILL AND ATTENTION, O’Gieblyn captures those perplexing days.