A 1997 graduate of Colorado College, Meagan was a high school English teacher for three years. She married her husband Paul in August of 1998. Their son, Nate, was born in 2000, their first daughter, Haley, in 2002, and their second daughter, Kiana, in 2005. In those five child-bearing years, she was a stay-at-home mom who wrote random musings and convinced one magazine to publish an article of hers. In fall of 2003, she started research for Choosing to Grow Through Marriage. In the fall of 2005, she was hired as a reporter for The Dunn County News in Menomonie, Wisconsin and for five months she did a variety of writing projects for the paper. Meagan wrote features, opinion pieces and news articles. She generally lives in Woodbury, Minnesota, but you can also find her at the family cabin in Wisconsin or at one of her favorite summer vacation spots near Castle Rock, Colorado.