Self-Portrait While being Tested for MS

Meghann Plunkett is a screenwriter and poet. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she served as a poetry reader for The New Yorker before shifting her focus to television and film. Her credits include Station 19, Rebel, and First Lie Wins, an adaptation of the New York Times–bestselling novel, which she cocreated alongside Krista Vernoff and Octavia Spencer. Her collection What We Did to Her Made the Water Rise was published by Black Lawrence Press (2025). Plunkett’s writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Narrative Magazine, and Copper Nickel, among other publications.