Biography

My primary focus is personal and collective peacekeeping. I write poems to transmute chronic grief associated with the exploitation and murder of innocents in the warring culture.

“Everyone has to follow their own path and this requires a great deal of individual responsibility.”

—Lino Miele, Ashtanga Yoga: The Yoga of Breath, p. 46

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Biography

Megan Hollingsworth, MS

Meg is a writer with an interdisciplinary education in applied health science and environmental studies. She is currently an East West Psychology doctoral student at California Institute of Integral Studies. Meg’s work is deeply influenced by her Quaker upbringing, Engaged Buddhism, and faith in essential goodness.

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

Quakerism is a Christian faith grounded in direct experience of the divine. For more with a brief on Meg’s roots in Quaker faith and practice, please see Friends.

Engaged Buddhism

For a sample of what we mean by Engaged Buddhism, please read Rewilding, Healing, Regeneration and Transformation for the Land by Mick McEvoy, Plum Village’s Happy Farm.

In 2012, Meg initiated the creative spiritual practice Extinction Witness to express and support complicated disenfranchised grief that she has experienced since first studying global health and environmental science in the mid-1990s. After a three-year break from project work, Meg returned to Extinction Witness in 2022 with a focus on publishing her poetry.

Meg’s first book is Frog Song (October 2023). Recommended for readers ages 9 and up, Frog Song leads with an interspecies love poem illustrated by Bonnie Gordon-Lucas. The book includes the true story of Toughie, the last known living Rabbs’ fringe-limbed treefrog whose death in 2016 inspired the poem, and a section on big picture continuation. With reconciliation ecology and rewilding in mind, Frog Song emphasizes win-win solutions that begin at home.

Meg’s writing has been published in online journals including Kosmos Journal, Deep Times Journal, and Unpsychology Magazine, and in print anthologies, including LOVE: The Ultimate Answer to the Meaning of Life, What do we do about inequality? - Wicked Problems Collaborative Book I, and Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices.

Meg holds a master’s degree in environmental studies from the University of Montana and a bachelor’s degree with high distinction in applied health science (community health education) from Indiana University. She enjoys playing haiku on purpose and lives in Bozeman, Montana with her son.