Megan Rogers (Australia)
Two years into writing The Heart is a Star, Megan Rogers was working on her family tree and discovered that her paternal grandfather was born on the West Coast of Tasmania, near where she had set her novel. Megan began her working life as an editorial assistant at Allen & Unwin, before moving to the State Library of Victoria, in Marketing. In 2014 Megan finished a PhD in Creative Writing at RMIT, about the madwoman in the attic trope in feminist literature which resulted in the book, Finding the Plot, A Maternal Approach to Madness in Literature with Canadian feminist publisher Demeter Press. She also has a Bachelor of Arts/Science, a Diploma of Professional Writing & Editing, a Graduate Diploma in Professional Communication, and a Masters of Marketing. Megan lives in the the Mornington Peninsula outside Melbourne. The Heart is a Star is her first novel. (Harper Collins Australia, 2023).
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