Megan Denese Mealor has been a writer all of her life. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 Best of the Net candidate, her poetry and short fiction have been published in hundreds of literary journals over the last decade, including Gone Lawn, Sick Lit Magazine, The Scarlet Leaf Review, Penumbric, Literally Stories, Hello Horror, Dark Moon Digest, Digital Americana, and Haikuniverse. She is also the author of five full-length poetry collections: Bipolar Lexicon (Unsolicited Press, 2018); Blatherskite (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2019); A Mourning Dove's Wishbone (Cyberwit.net, 2022); A Cat May Look Like a King (Dancing Girl Press, 2026); and Coals to Newcastle (Cyberwit.net, 2027). A survivor of bipolar disorder, Megan is a vocal advocate for those in the arts suffering from mental health, as well as the healing the arts can bring to people in distress. Married to her husband since 2012, Megan is the proud mama of 10-year-old Jesse, who was diagnosed with autism at age three. She also owns a pet-sitting business, volunteers much of her free time reading submissions for several popular literary magazines, and is the unofficial caretaker of her online family cemetery.