Meggen Lyon has taught creative writing workshops for people aged 7 to 70.  She has served as Artist-in-Residence at Dreams Wilmington, a nonprofit arts education center for at-risk youth in Wilmington, NC.  She also leads writing workshops for children enrolled in school-age programs at the Asheville Jewish Community Center.  Her student-centered workshops have included poetry, multi-genre, mixed media, and collaborative performance projects. 

Meggen earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and her BA in English from Michigan State University, where she was an Honors College member.  She taught a wide range of writing courses in the English and Creative Writing departments at UNCW, and at Cape Fear Community College.  In 2002, she received a UNCW Graduate Teaching Excellence Award.

Meggen has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a finalist for the N.C. Arts Council-sponsored residency at Headlands Center for the Arts.  She was a member of Brawdeville, a women’s performance art troupe based in Wilmington, where she wrote and performed poems, songs, and skits.  Her poems have appeared in The Journal, The Kerf, Potomac Review, Elixir, and Show and Tell: Writers on Writing.  She is currently an online writing consultant, and a researcher and contributing writer for a commissioned biography of character actor Pat Hingle.