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Megan Bohigian is a Fresno poet who teaches at Roosevelt High School where she organizes an annual week of readings by area poets in celebration of National Poetry Month. This year the event involved 21 poets and provided 36 readings during which there were more than 2,700 students in seats (some for multiple readings).
Bohigian has an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis on poetry from California State University, Fresno. Her poems have been published in a number of journals, including Two Lines, The Comstock Review, In the Grove, several different years of The San Joaquin Review, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, and Whiskey Island Magazine. One of her recent poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she has been a finalist in several poetry contests.
Bohigian was born in New York City, grew up in San Francisco, attended UCLA and graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a BFA. She was a TV news reporter, and worked in public relations and marketing, as well as freelance writing, before becoming a teacher in 1991. As an educator, she is committed to teaching creative writing. This commitment has led to her forming a creative writing group at Roosevelt, incorporating creative writing as mastery project options in her GATE English classes, and in inventing and running (for 9 years) the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project’s camp for young writers, aged 8-18. She also directed the Saroyan Centennial Prize competitions in creative nonfiction, fiction, and one-act play for the Saroyan Society 2 years ago.
Bohigian is married, and tends her garden with her husband Ron.
