July 21, 2020

Meagan Lucas Offers a Gritty Novel Featuring a Survivor Female Protagonist in “Songbirds & Stray Dogs”

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In this episode 124, we visit with Meagan Lucas, author of”Songbirds & Stray Dogs.”

Step Post, Columnist with LitReactor, says of the book: “Quite possibly my favorite debut novel of the year. ‘Songbirds and Stray Dogs’ has everything I love about Southern fiction—atmosphere, a deep attention to place and, most importantly, tough, unforgettable characters, spearheaded by the indomitable Jolene. Meagan Lucas is the very definition of a badass, female grit lit author.”

Meagan starts the show with a reading from early in the book where the protagonist’s religious guardian aunt reminds her who she belongs to, and by that, she means Jesus.

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About the Author

Meagan is a Canadian who found home in the mountains of North Carolina. Born and raised on a small island in Northern Ontario, she now lives with her husband and their children in Hendersonville, North Carolina. She misses the Great Lakes, the butter tarts, and the blueberries, but not the snow.

Meagan teaches English Composition and Creative Writing at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and is the Fiction Editor at Barren Magazine. Her short work has appeared in: The Santa Fe Writer’s Project, The New Southern Fugitives, Still: The Journal, and The Blue Mountain Review, among others. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she won the 2017 Scythe Prize for Fiction.

Her first novel, Songbirds and Stray Dogs was published by Main Street Rag Publishing in August 2019.

Meagan loves: coffee, wine, houseplants, concerts, cheesecake and bookstores. When she’s not teaching, writing, or entertaining small people, you can find her with her face in a book.

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