Winner of the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize Megan is a poet performance artist freelance writer locavore glutenfree kitchen witch and single parent She lives with her teenaged son and their supernaturally cute Pomeranian Her work has been published in the Iowa Source The Ottumwa Courier the anthology Lyrical Iowa 2007 and the anthology This Enduring Gift She is passionate about poetry as performance art and looks forward to sharing her work at an open mike near you quotMegans writing brings to mind the desert flower the blossoms that have become tough from fighting the environment She reaches for the mooring of autobiography and loosens the knot We can feel the transformation that happens when the decision is made to stand and face the story the birth cry of a warriormother one who steps hungry into the rite of passage rather than choose the easy path of the cowardquot David Hurlin Drummer for Apocalypso Tantric Boys Choir and Author of The End of Tourism