Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Sin Eater | 2020 | Buy |
| The Widow Spy | 2024 | Buy |
Megan Campisi trained as a theater artist and worked in performance before publishing her debut novel, Sin Eater. That background shows in her fiction, which has a strong sense of staging, ritual, and the physical details of historical life. Sin Eater is set in a version of Elizabethan England and follows a fourteen-year-old girl sentenced to become a sin eater — an outcast who absorbs the sins of the dying through a ceremonial meal.
Her second novel, The Widow Spy, moves to a different period and setting while keeping her interest in women navigating systems of power that weren’t designed for them. Campisi brings a playwright’s ear for dialogue and an attention to sensory detail that makes her historical settings feel lived-in.