Here in the Dark, the first collection from award-winning author Meagan Lucas, is a gritty genre blending wallop of short stories, set mostly in Southern Appalachia, that explore the female experience of lawlessness.

Lucas will be joined by local author Steph Post for this exciting event!

“Like lightning, every story in Meagan Lucas’s new collection is a flash of brilliance – a bolt right to the reader’s heart. With Here in the Dark, Lucas takes risks and never flinches, she embraces the darker sides of humanity, without once dehumanizing her characters and proves, without a doubt, why she’s one of the most exciting new voices in Appalachian Noir.” – Steph Post, author of Miraculum, Lightwood, Walk in the Fire, Holding Smoke, and A Tree Born Crooked

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Meagan Lucas is the author of the award-winning novel, Songbirds and Stray Dogs. Her short work can be found in places like Still: The Journal, Bull Magazine, Pithead Chapel and others and won the 2017 Scythe Prize for Fiction. Songbirds and Stray Dogs 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 is the Editor-in-Chief of Reckon Review. Born and raised on a small island in Northern Ontario, she now calls the mountains of Western North Carolina home.

Steph Post is the author of the novels Holding Smoke, Miraculum, Walk in the Fire, Lightwood, and A Tree Born Crooked. She graduated from Davidson College as a recipient of the Patricia Cornwell Scholarship for creative writing and a winner of the Vereen Bell writing award for fiction. She holds a Master’s degree in Graduate Liberal Studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her work has most recently appeared in Garden & Gun, Nonbinary Review, and the anthology Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics. She is a regular contributor to CrimeReads and LitReactor and has published numerous book reviews and author interviews. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Rhysling Award and was a semi-finalist for The Big Moose Prize. She lives in Florida.