Born in Temple, Texas on May 9, 1979, Megan McLean Harris spent the first ten years of her life in Gatesville, Texas, a small prison town near Waco. During her formative Jr. High years, her family moved to Denton, Texas where her father spent time as the regional director of F.E.M.A. The family, then, moved to San Antonio where Harris attended Churchill High School. She stayed busy in many extracurricular activities such as band, the student newspaper, student literary magazine and various language clubs.
Harris attended Baylor University and earned degrees in filmmaking and history with hopes of becoming a documentary filmmaker. After college, she moved to Fort Worth, Texas where she gained experience as a computer system integrator, a public relations coordinator for a mental health clinic, and as an award-winning movie theatre manager. She became involved with the blossoming poetry scenes at the Black Dog Tavern in Fort Worth, and Mad Swirl in Dallas.
In July of 2005, she decided to take a leap of faith and move to New Orleans, Louisiana, but was forced away by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the town. For weeks, she worked alongside her father, the emergency manager for the Veterans Administration, to help bring 25,000 evacuees from New Orleans into San Antonio, Texas.
Harris returned to New Orleans and worked for OffBeat Magazine, the music magazine of New Orleans. She frequently read poetry at the Maple Leaf, The Goldmine and The Neutral Ground. While in New Orleans, Harris was published in the Maple Leaf Rag (an anthology book of readers from the Maple Leaf Poetry Reading), OffBeat Magazine, and published two volumes of her own poetry, Jackhammer Blow and Vitreous Humor.
Currently, Harris lives in Gatesville, Texas where she is working as a general contractor for her family properties, renovating historic buildings in the downtown Gatesville area. She plans on returning to New Orleans in late autumn.
Favorite Authors Include:
William Least Heat Moon, John Kennedy Toole, Carson McCullers, William Bryan Massey III, Charles Bukowski, Ayn Rand, Jack Kerouac, Isabel Allende, Sandra Cisneros, Flannery O’Connor, Hart Crane, Joseph Conrad, and Ernest Hemmingway.
Odd Facts About Harris:
• She speaks five languages (English, Spanish, Tagalog, Italian, Russian)
• She had her small engine pilots license at age 17
• She has played trumpet for the Queen of England
• She has been a member of American Mensa since age 7
• She has always wanted to be a commercial truck driver, and may yet.
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mmharris's Genres: american gothic, americana, macabre, feminist, emotive, romance, alcoholic, smelly, retarded, intellectual, shoegazer, trucker, libertarian, poopy, pinchy, totalitarian, douche bag, trollop, troubadourette, trumpeting whore, dreadnaught, jugs, dainty doil
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