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Meg A. Pokrass is an American writer, editor and teacher of writing.

Pokrass specializes in flash fiction (stories generally occupying fewer than ten pages and 2000 words) and micro fiction (frequently only a few sentences). Her work is noted for incisive observation and wry humor, often detailing interpersonal relationships. Her first collection was the limited edition chapbook, Lost and Found: elimae Stories, published by the micro press Bannock Street Books in late 2009. This was followed by Damn Sure Right, her first full-length collection, published in 2011 by Press 53. Author Frederick Barthelme called her work "wonderful, dark, unforgiving." Her flash novella "Here, Where We Live" appeared in the omnibus collection My Very End of the Universe: Five Novellas-in-Flash and a Study of the Form (Rose Metal, 2014), which won one of the Independent Publisher Book Awards that year (IPPY Gold Award, 2014). A collection of prose poetry, Cellulose Pajamas, won the Blue Light Book Award and was published by Blue Light Press in 2015. The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down is scheduled for release in 2016 by Etruscan Press.

Pokrass's work is also included in the anthologies Flash in the Attic: 33 Very Short Stories (Fiction Attic, 2013), Roadside Curiosities: Stories About American Pop Culture (University of Leipzig, 2014) and, most recently, Flash Fiction International (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015).

In addition to her writing, Pokrass co-founded, with Jane Ciabatarri and Grant Faulkner, The Flash Fiction Collective, a reading series, and is the founding editor of New Flash Fiction Review. Since 2010, she has also been an associate editor at New World Writing (www.newworldwriting.net), formerly known as Blip Magazine and Mississippi Review Online. She has served on and created panels for AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs), LitQuake and the Sonoma County Book Festival. Her teaching activities include co-teaching with Robert Shapard a week-long course on the flash fiction novella for the Creative Writing MFA Program at Indiana University, as well as conducting workshops on flash fiction and publishing for the Texas Writers' League and the Wyoming Arts Council.