Megan Elizabeth Easley, MSW

Biography

Megan Easley-Walsh, PhD History, is an author of historical fiction, a researcher, and a writing consultant and editor at Extra Ink Edits. She is an award-winning writer and has taught college writing in the UNESCO literature city of Dublin, Ireland. She is a dual American and Irish citizen and lives in Ireland with her Irish husband. Megan is a Professional Member of the Irish Writers' Centre, a Full Member of the Irish Writers' Union, a member of the Historical Novel Society, a Full Member of ACES: The Society for Editing, a member of the Irish Association of Professional Historians, a member of the American Historical Association, a member of the Irish Association of Art Historians, and a member of The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Additionally, she was shortlisted for the 2021 Hammond House International Literary Prize in Poetry and the 2023 Hammond House Origins Poetry Contest. Peer-reviewed articles have been published in the Zambian Journal of Religion and Contemporary Issues (2022), in AVANT: The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard (Trends in interdisciplinary studies and philosophy of science) (2023), and in Prague Papers On the History of International Relations (2024). Her doctoral thesis explored the early origins of International Relations, stemming from the 1884 International Prime Meridian Conference, and how this in turn led toward the paving of the twentieth century. Special consideration was given to the European impact on the African continent in the latter half of the nineteenth century. As a historian, particularly interested in international studies, Dr. Easley-Walsh has been fortunate to receive her education from three continents.