English
College of Liberal Arts
Twin Cities
Award Year
2023
University Award
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
Research Title
Supporting a Forthcoming Novel
No Monument Location
Megan Giddings’s first novel, Lakewood, was a Best Book of 2020 at New York Magazine and NPR, and a nominee for two NAACP Image Awards. Her second novel, The Women Could Fly, garnered national and international attention with reviews in The Guardian, the New York Times, Time, and The Boston Globe, among others. A guest on Late Night with Seth Myers, Giddings is now working on her third novel, Meet Me at the Crossroads.