Megan Hirt, Assistant Editor

Megan hails from Topeka, Kan., and graduated from the University of Kansas in 2008 with degrees in Journalism and French. She first entered the world of MOTHER EARTH NEWS in summer 2007 as an editorial intern and has been on board as an assistant editor since March 2009.

Megan’s primary duties at MOTHER EARTH NEWS include copy editing all magazine content, spearheading natural health coverage, overseeing all online articles and book excerpts, keeping the website home page in shape, managing the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Facebook page, putting together the Health & Environment e-newsletter, and working on the new MOTHER EARTH NEWS Online department in the magazine, which spotlights all of the many cool things happening on our website.

While at the University of Kansas, Megan won second place in the nation in the Hearst Journalism Foundation intercollegiate in-depth writing competition for her story A Sobering Struggle, which profiled college students who have alcoholism. In her spare time, Megan writes about eating disorders and body image in her blog, bodies in focus.

Aside from writing and editing, Megan’s favorite things include France, the French language, dance, summer, the sky, psychology and brightly colored scarves.