Meghan Vigeant is the author of Guts, Feathers, and All: Stories of Hard Work and Good Times on Swan’s Island, Maine, published by Island Institute, and the co-author of Only Human: A Journey from Convict to Mentor with Alton Lane. Her writing has appeared in Decor Maine, Stonecoast Review, Multiplicity, Island Journal, Maine Boats, FEM, Hole in the Head Review, and the collections Balancing Act 2 and Wait: Poems from the Pandemic. She has been a writer in residence at Monson Arts, earned her MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, and studied radio documentary at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland.

For five years, Meghan worked as a teaching artist with The Telling Room, where she taught creative writing and storytelling to young Maine writers online and in classrooms around the state.

From 2009 to 2011, Meghan served as the Island Institute Fellow on Swan’s Island where she produced a series of oral history documentaries and wrote a collection of profiles. Her audio productions have aired on public radio outlets and won the Third Coast Short Docs.

Since 2013, Meghan has provided book and audio production services to individuals and organizations—from ghostwriting to book editing to podcasting. She has interviewed hundreds of people, turning their recordings into books and audio documentaries. Some of her clients include EMC Heritage Trust, College of the Atlantic, Georges River Land Trust, and the Penobscot Marine Museum.

As a storyteller, Meghan has performed live at the Common Ground Fair, The Corner, Sweet Tree Arts Story SLAM, Rockland’s Kin, the Steel House, and the Midcoast Women’s Collective Voices.