Meagan Lucas
Author · 3 books
Meagan Lucas is the author of the award-winning novel, Songbirds and Stray Dogs (2019) and the forthcoming collection, Here in the Dark (Shotgun Honey, July 2023). Meagan’s short work can be found in places like Still: The Journal, Bull Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Dark Yonder and Rock and a Hard Place. Meagan is Pushcart, Best of the Net, Derringer, and Canadian Crime Writers’ Award of Excellence nominated; won the 2017 Scythe Prize for Fiction, and Songbirds and Stray Dogs won the 2020 Indie Book Award for Best First Novel and was North Carolina’s selection for the Library of Congress Center for the Book’s 2022 Route 1 Reads program. She teaches Creative Writing at Robert Morris University and in the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville, and she is the Editor-in-Chief of Reckon Review. Born and raised on a small island in Northern Ontario, she now calls Western North Carolina home.
