Megan E. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels ALONE and AWAY, which have each won the Colorado Book Award and the High Plains Book Award. ALONE also won the California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Japan, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Vermont children’s book awards, is a NCTE Notable Verse Novel and is included on over two dozen "best of" and state reading lists. Megan is also the author of the brand new young adult novel, The Secret to Belonging, the poetry chapbook, Lessons on Sleeping Alone, and AFAR, a third novel in the ALONE series coming out in February 2027.

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A National Writing Project teacher with decades of classroom experience, Megan taught multiple subjects across the arts and humanities to students K-16, and she is nationally recognized for presenting workshops and speaking to audiences across the country. She studied theater and dramatic literature for many years, earning degrees from Occidental College and the Ohio State University.

 

Megan is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Writing Heights of Northern Colorado, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Columbine Poets of Colorado, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She is an Impact on Education Award winner, a Fund for Teachers fellow, and a member of the Colorado Poets Center. She used to live in northeast Los Angeles, central Ohio, northern Norway, and on Caribbean cruise ships. Now she divides her time between northern Colorado and the Texas Gulf Coast.