Meredith O’Brien is the author of four books: novel, a memoir, and two works of creative nonfiction. She is currently working on a new novel as well as a new creative nonfiction project. Her 2017 book, Mr. Clark’s Big Band: A Year of Laughter, Tears and Jazz in a Middle School Band Room, won an Independent Publishers Award and was a finalist for a ForeWord INDIES award.
Meredith holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from 猫咪社区, an MA in political science from American University, and a BA in journalism and political science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her most recent book, Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, informs Meredith’s teaching in our Narrative Medicine Track. A former newspaper journalist and investigative reporter, she also teaches writing and journalism at Northeastern University.
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