Megan Milks received her M.A. in fiction in 2007. The title of her thesis was Matilda. Her fiction has been published in Pocket Myths: The Odyssey (2006), Mildred Pierce (Issue Two, 2006), Open Yr Throat and Speak (a radio show, 2006), and Forge (2006), and is forthcoming in Spuyten Duyvil's as-yet-untitled anthology of experimental women writers writing in the 21st century. Her essay “Janey v. Genet: Postcolonial Plagiarism in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School" is forthcoming in 2007 in Kathy Acker: Transatlanticism and the Transnational, edited by Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol. Milks co-edits Mildred Pierce and associate-edits PopMatters.com. In July 2006, she participated in The Writer's Edge, a three-day workshop for innovative writers sponsored by Fiction Collective Two and Portland State University. She participated in "The Decaying Sense of Leviathan: A Critically Creative Conference" at the University of Montreal in March 2007. She is now working towards her Ph.D. in Creative Writing at University of Illinois-Chicago.