ABOUT

Megan Rogers is the bestselling author of novel The Heart is a Star which debuted at #4 in Australian fiction in 2023 on the week of release. It went on to be one of the highest selling debuts of the year.

Since then, she has signed a further two-book deal with Catherine Milne at HarperCollins Australia and will be releasing her second novel The Anatomy of Tears under the 4th Estate imprint in late 2025.

Always a bit of a geek, libraries have long been Megan’s haven. Within them she’s been able to foster a life-long love of books, the quiet and librarians. She has also been able to use libraries to feed her studies in broad subjects such as mathematics, science, ballet, astronomy and narratology, and to research questions for her novels such as, ‘How does a body decompose in water?’ and ‘Have astrophysicists proven the existence of soul mates?’ 

After a stint climbing the corporate ladder, where she eventually headed up the marketing for the State Library of Victoria.

In 2012 Megan started working with mentor Drusilla Modjeska and in 2013 she was invited to present her writing at Oxford University. In 2014 Megan completed a PhD in Creative Writing and won the Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award. In 2016 Megan won first place in the My Brother Jack literary awards and has been published in literary journals and academic publications. 

Megan also holds a Bachelor of Arts/Science from Monash University, a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing from RMIT University, a Graduate Diploma in Professional Communication from Deakin, and a Master of Marketing from Monash University.

In 2017 she had her first non-fiction book published Finding the Plot with Demeter Press. 

Megan lives on the Mornington Peninsula with her husband and two daughters.