the Collective
Our studio and collective lead is award-winning writer, editor and cultural strategist, Megan Natasha Ross
milk fever
Megan is the author of Milk Fever, published by uHlanga in 2018. Her writing has won the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction and the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award, and has been recognised by PEN International, the Miles Morland Foundation, the European Union and The Other Foundation. She is endorsed by Arts Council England as a Global Talent in Literature.
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Megan Natasha Ross
Born in Johannesburg in 1989 and raised along South Africa’s Wild Coast, Megan brings a distinctly southern African, literary and Indian Ocean sensibility to her work. Immersed in the arts + literary worlds for almost two decades, Megan’s work is shaped by feminist and decolonial ways of seeing, an interest in liminal spaces, and a commitment to narratives that centre people, place and our planet.
multidisciplinary
From visual art + image-making to editing, prose + poetry, Megan’s award-winning practice encompasses multiple forms with work across London, Zanzibar, Amsterdam + Johannesburg. A sought-out artist, strategist and editor, her background spans book cover design, lifestyle journalism, cultural storytelling + literary publishing. Across our projects, Megan leads with a globally recognised point of view, shaping Stoep’s unusually fluid relationship with language and image.
methodology
In cross-disciplinary + rhizomatic ways, Megan’s cultural depth + imaginative practice informs our studio’s holistic approach to shaping campaigns, designing visual systems or developing editorial worlds. Whether you’re a commercial organisation, studio or cultural institution, Stoep can develop conscious ecosystems for expression, shaping visual language and narrative strategy alike with care, depth and beauty.
mother of pearl
“Pearl” being μαργαρίτης, the original Greek for the name, Megan. Acts of excavation + incantation characterise Megan’s Substack, which reimagines inner and outer worlds in wide-ranging prose and poetry. Paying subscribers receive first drafts of new work + unread excerpts.
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