Biography

Megan Feulner is a writer and literary researcher based in Boston. She holds an M.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies and is currently developing a long-form project on the French-American writer and diarist Anaïs Nin.

Her work sits at the intersection of literary history, archival research, and the intimate record, with a focus on women’s artistic lives and self-authorship.

MY ANAÏS NIN PROJECT

This project examines Anaïs Nin’s parallel marriages, serial attachments, and intricate emotional life as deliberate attempts to live feminist ideas before they had stable language. Reading her diaries against her public reputation, it traces how Nin became a touchstone for second-wave feminists—first embraced as an icon of female sexual and artistic freedom, then increasingly dismissed as a liar when the unexpurgated diaries complicated that image during the feminist sex wars. Rather than adjudicating Nin’s truthfulness or morality, the project considers how freedom, dependency, self-mythologizing, and formal invention coexist in her work, producing a legacy that remains as generative as it is fraught.