You are like one of those men who says things so calmly, assured, that women give themselves to him. Meagan Ruth Honea attended the University of North Georgia (UNG) where she received a Bachelor’s Degree in Writing & Publication in 2012. She was born and raised in North Georgia, where she developed her opinions and voice. Images teeming with stifling humidity, dogwood trees, Baptist guilt, and gender roles depict her style, which was shaped and molded by her grandmothers, many men, and her southern roots. She knows a South that is dirty, sticky, and sweet—a South new in the sense that it allows one to transcend traditional ideals concerning gender, race, and spirituality, while also retaining what is good, such as drawn out inflections and makeshift compound words, ripe peaches, dirt roads, collard greens, and corn bread—a South dripping with otherworldliness, yet stifled by tradition. Her writing is sometimes inspired by Faulkner and the holy trinity of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Flannery O’Connor. Meagan currently works diligently as a professional legal proofreader and a freelance writer and editor. She also raises her four year old son Forrest, a handsome, young feminist and progressive in the making who enjoys Dr. Seuss, the farm, girls, cupcake frosting, and deer hunting.
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