Megan Costigan

Megan Costigan is an Australian author born in Queensland and now living in Canberra.

She was first published at the age of twelve with a short story about Santa Claus in Queensland’s Sunday Sun newspaper and continued her love for writing with a range of poetry published in the university literary magazine Harvester USQ (1989–1992), a short story included in Pressing the Flesh – an anthology of emerging writers in the ACT and a poem published in (2002) Sappho’s Dreams and Delights – An Australian Anthology of Lesbian poetry.

Her short story Flight was chosen as a highly commended inclusion in the Morrison Mentoring 2016 Anthology and she was published with poems Crash in the (2017) international anthology Love and The Dancer in the (2019) anthology
The Seasons.

Megan’s writing is overseen by twelve-year old tortoise-shell cat Tippy.