Meagan F. Clements is a credentialed schoolteacher and writer based in Southern California. She enjoys all aspects of music journalism and creative writing as well as working with children and teens. Her writing stems largely from real life people, events, and experiences.
Meagan earned her bachelor’s degree in liberal studies with a music concentration as well as a multiple-subject teaching credential and a master’s degree in education from Azusa Pacific University in sunny, Southern California. While studying at Azusa Pacific, Meagan became involved in writing for The Clause, the weekly campus newspaper, as a senior staff writer, immersing herself in news, opinion, feature, entertainment, and sports reporting.
Upon graduating from Azusa Pacific, Meagan continued to pursue her undeniable love for music freelancing album reviews, live show reviews, and in-depth band/artist profiles. Meagan has interviewed the likes of blues guitarist Jonny Lang, pop/rock group Hanson, and singer/songwriters Tyler Hilton (One Tree Hill) and Jon McLaughlin to name just a few.
If she could interview any musician dead or alive, it would be Timmy Rough of the German hard rock band, The New Roses.
Meagan’s greatest passion is integrating her love for music into her books. Whether it’s the poem “Slipping Inside” — a tribute to the vocal stylings of one of her favorite singers, Counting Crows front man Adam Duritz — featured in her 2019 release, Bug Off!, or her most recent book series about a family of house flies with humanlike characteristics (one of whom is a young fly into rock and roll and blues music), Meagan rarely writes without offering her passion for the art of singer/songwriters and hip, slightly defiant and edgy rock bands.
Meagan is the late short story and chief literary editor of Cygnet Literary Magazine, an independent publication fostering creativity of adolescent writers through La Salle High School in Pasadena, CA where she worked from 2000 to 2004 and has had over 80 articles published in newspapers, magazines, and online publications since 2005. Additionally, she has written more than 30 children’s, self-help, spiritual, and poetry books. As an author, she is inspired by Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, and Stan and Jan Berenstain of the children’s literature series, The Berenstain Bears. She also enjoys Judy Blume, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Gary Paulson, and John Steinbeck.
Finally, she credits jazz crooner Tom Waits with helping bring her short stories and novelettes to life. A favorite song lyric of hers hails from Waits’ The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone’s Pizza House) — “And the early dawn cracks out a carpet of diamonds across a cash crop car lot filled with twilight Coupe Devilles.”
Meagan is experienced in copywriting, content writing, blog writing, creative writing, journalism, proofreading, editing, storytelling, book publishing, and search engine optimization (SEO).
In the classroom, Meagan has found a niche teaching in small group and special education environments. Working with learning disabled children has always been a source of comfort and pleasure. Meagan has taught interactive writing (she wrote her 60-page master’s thesis on interactive writing, a topic she is very passionate about) as well as writing fundamentals to learning center students in grades 6-8. Meagan is certified in backwards-design lesson planning.
Meagan also contributes articles for the Event-News Enterprise (event-newsenterprise.com) as well as the Sun News (sunnews.org).
“This author has a series of children’s books told through the view of animal characters which presents a fun way to impart valuable lessons to kids. Just delightful.” — Maridee Edwards, Top Amazon Review