Meghan Laslocky

About Meghan

Freelance writer, editor, producer and researcher whose wide-ranging credits include the San Francisco Chronicle, PBS Frontline, CNN and Salon.
Recipient of the Clay Felker Award for Excellence in Magazine Writing for "Love in the Age of Silicone" (Salon.com)
Author of The Little Book of Heartbreak: Love Gone Wrong Through the Ages (Plume/Penguin, Jan 2013)

Interactive Producer • KQED

2008 — 2012

Editor and producer for the PBS site "Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures" (www.pbs.org/oceanadventures) and KQED's You Decide (www.kqed.org/youdecide).

Associate Producer • PBS FRONTLINE

2004 — 2005

Interactive Production Manager/Associate Producer for the PBS affiliate KQED
Collaborated with interactive producer, designers and series editor to produce broadcast-associated sites, weekly Web-exclusive dispatches and interactive features (www.pbs.org/frontlineworld)
Wrote copy, facts and links and features such as Canada: Border Town, part of “Dispatches from A Small Planet,” a series of international perspectives on the 2004 U.S. presidential election (www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/elections/canada)

Senior Project Manager • Griffin Grant Writing and Consulting

1997 — 1999

Wrote successful multi-million dollar grant proposals for law enforcement, housing, and health and human services.

Program Specialist • National Endowment for the Humanities

1990 — 1994

University of California, Berkeley

MA, Journalism, 2005

Middlebury College

BA, English Literature, 1990

Magna Cum Laude

Analysis of magic in "Midsummer Night's Dream", "Macbeth" and "The Tempest"

Winner, Clay Felker Prize for Magazine Writing for "Love in the Age of Silicone", published by Salon.com - magazine article on men who have relationships with high-end love dolls.

Author, "The Little Book of Heartbreak: Love Gone Wrong Through the Ages" (Plume/Penguin 2013), a social and cultural history of love gone wrong that O, the Oprah magazine, hailed as "a hilarious salve for the lovesick" and Amazon reviewers have called “beautifully written with plenty of wry asides and downright sharp wit" and praised for providing “all the relationship kung fu you need."