Meagan Church
Meagan Church
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Meagan Church is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of emotionally-charged, thought-provoking fiction that explores the domestic lives, bodies, and thwarted ambitions of twentieth-century American women.
Her novels include The Last Carolina Girl (2023), set in 1935 against the backdrop of North Carolina's newly formed eugenics board; The Girls We Sent Away (2024), which follows a college-bound girl sent to a home for unwed mothers during the 1960s Baby Scoop Era, and which was a Southern Indie bestseller and the statewide North Carolina Reads book club pick for 2025; and The Mad Wife (2025), a story of motherhood and unravelling set in a 1950s suburb.
After a B.A. in English from Indiana University she built a career as a freelance writer, and she is an adjunct in Drexel University's MFA creative writing program. A Midwesterner by birth, she now lives in North Carolina with her family.
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Her novels are standalone works of historical fiction, meaning you can read them in any order without missing narrative connections. Each book functions as a self-contained exploration of different mid-twentieth-century American experiences.
She focuses on uncovering and chronicling the stories of unheard voices from the past, often centering her narratives on the domestic lives and societal constraints placed on women during the mid-twentieth century.
Before becoming a novelist, she built a career as a freelance writer, editor, and publisher of a literary journal. She currently contributes to the creative writing community by teaching in the MFA program at Drexel University.