Megaera C. Lorenz
Megaera Lorenz was born in Little Rock, AR in 1984, but spent the majority of her childhood on Guam. The daughter of a geologist and a mathematician, Megaera broke from the family’s STEM tradition when she became obsessed with ancient Egypt as a child. She enrolled in college at the University of Guam at age 13 and eventually earned a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. Over the years she has worked as a museum educator, an instructor of undergraduate and graduate-level Egyptology courses, a field archaeologist, and a professional tech writer and editor. She has also been writing fiction and creating art for the sheer joy of it since early childhood.
In addition to her love of Egyptology, Megaera is fascinated with early 20th
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Hunt them down!
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A MISSING BROOCH. A FACE SET IN CEMENT. NOT YOUR AVERAGE MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Some excerpts from reviews for Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys:
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