Followers (Angelo) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1983-84
• Where—Quakerstown, Pennsylvania, USA
• Education—Villanova University
• Currently—lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania


Megan Angelo grew up in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, graduating from Villanova University in Philadelphia. The fiction bug bit Angelo early on; she recalls rolling pieces o scrap paper into her parents' typewriter and inventing "very creepy, tragic, dark stories." Fortunately, teachers from elementary school on up through high, encouraged her to continue. 

An internship at the Philadelphia Inquirer started Angelo on a path toward journalism, and a second internship placed her at a highly coveted spot at Conde Nast. Upon graduation, she stayed in New York, accepting a job at Nast as editorial assistant. After Nast closed the small imprint she had worked for, Angelo supported herself as a freelance writer. Finally, she hit pay dirt: a job as contributing editor at Glamour.

In 2010, Angelo married a high school classmate, and in 2012 the couple moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. They started a family, which now includes three children. All the while, Angelo continued writing until, in 2020, she published Followers, her first novel.

As a freelancer, Angelo's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Glamour and Elle, among other publications. She continues to live in Pennsylvania with her family. (Adapted from the publisher and online sources.)