Megan Hart is a New York Times best-selling American author of over forty romance and erotic novels, novellas, and short stories, as well as thriller novels written under the pseudonym Mina Hardy.

Hart became interested in writing after reading and rewriting Ray Bradbury's short story Homecoming as a child. She decided to become a writer at the age of twelve after reading Stephen King's The Stand. She received a degree in journalism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1993 and resumed writing fiction in 1998, publishing her first book in 2002. She lives in Dayton, Ohio.

She has written in almost every genre of romantic fiction, including historical, contemporary, romantic suspense, romantic comedy, futuristic, fantasy, and perhaps most notably, erotic. She also writes non-erotic fantasy and science fiction, as well as occasionally dabbling in horror.