Meghan Adler has been a professional educator for over 20 years, previously in New York City, where her teaching experience was profiled in The New York Times. Meghan currently works as a learning and literacy specialist at a private school in the Bay Area, and also offers individual learning support and mentoring to students and their families. Meghan holds a BS in Elementary Education, as well as an MS in Reading, and has served as an adjunct professor of literacy at Hofstra University’s Graduate School of Education. In San Francisco, she volunteers her time at 826 Valencia, where she mentors young writers. In honor of her excellent work and dedication there, Meghan was named the Tutor of the Month. Some of her lessons were recently chosen to be included in the new book, Don't Forget to Write for the Elementary Grades: 50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons (Ages 5 to 12) by 826 National, edited by Jennifer Traig and Dave Eggers.

An award-winning poet, Meghan honed her craft at New York’s Writer’s Studio for four years, and served as an artist-in-residence at the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Among her honors, she was awarded first prize in Lumina’s 2004 National Poetry Contest, judged by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins; Honorable Mention and Editor’s Choice in the 2006 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards; nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize in Poetry; Finalist in the 2008 Muriel Craft Bailey Award Contest; Honorable Mention in the 2008 Rattle Poetry Contest; and Winner in the Poets 11/San Francisco Public Library 2010 Poetry Contest. One of her poems is now featured on a new wine bottle for Eric Kent Wine Cellars and another is included in a recent anthology, Illuminations, published by Ten Speed Press. Her poetry has also appeared in Alimentum, The Comstock Review, Eclipse, Gastronomica, The Ledge, The North American Review, Oberon, Paterson Literary Review, Rattle, Watershed, and Zeek.net.

... and here's Meghan's bio from 826 Valencia:

Meghan Adler loves teaching writing, especially poetry, to the young and talented writers at 826 Valencia. To quote one of her previous students, poetry is a kind of "mental weather" — allowing one to describe life's ups and downs and trials and triumphs. When not teaching workshops at 826 Valencia, Meghan spends some of her free time practicing (beginner) piano, with the hope of mastering Star Wars and playing it by heart in the near future. Other free moments are spent writing poetry. You may read her published poems at meghanadler.com. While a supporter of the organic food movement, Meghan also strongly believes that Sunkist soda on the rocks should be imbibed at least once a month.