Meagan Lucas is the author of the Anthony nominated collection Here in the Dark (Shotgun Honey, 2023) and the award-winning novel, Songbirds and Stray Dogs (Main Street Rag Press, 2019). Meagan has published over 40 short stories and essays. Her short fiction has been named to The Best American Mystery and Suspense Distinguished list twice (2023, 2024) and her story “They Light Themselves on Fire” will be included in the 2025 edition. She has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, Derringer, and Canadian Crime Writer’s Award of Excellence multiple times, and won the 2017 Scythe Prize for Fiction. Her novel Songbirds and Stray Dogs was chosen to represent North Carolina in the Library of Congress 2022 Route 1 Reads program, and won Best Debut at the 2020 Indie Book Awards. Meagan teaches in the Great Smokies Writing Program at the University of North Carolina – Asheville, is the editor-in-chief of Reckon Review, and studies law at the University of Dayton. Born and raised on a small island in Northern Ontario, she now lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina with her husband and children.
Meagan loves: pugs, bourbon, houseplants, and bookstores.
Meagan is available for Workshops and Speaking Engagements; she just asks that the hosts of events with multiple authors/artists welcome a variety of diverse presenters.
Meagan’s agent is Victoria Sanders of Victoria Sanders and Associates.
Meagan’s publicist is Lauren Harr of Gold Leaf Literary