About The Finished Project
Poetry for real life, in real life.
The Finished Project is a creative communications company inspired by the sacred feminine forces of creativity, courage, compassion, and communication. Founded by poet and artist Maegen McAuliffe O'Leary, we support living artists and women-owned, small business through an online retail platform that promotes poetry for real life, in real life.
The Finished Project also provides innovative communications solutions for small businesses and brands, including copywriting and editing, social media and website content creation, creative direction, and brand design.
Interested in working with us? Email hello@thefinishedproject.org
Creativity + Courage + Compassion + Communication
The Finished Project was founded in 2023 by Maegen McAuliffe O'Leary, a poet, artist, and mother from the Pacific Northwest. Maegen's work focuses on the contemporary human experience as it intersects feminism, matrimony, motherhood, magic, creativity, and the human body and its place in nature.
She is the author of Bodies to Bury the Hunger (2022), Full Belly: Poems (2024), Richest Bastard in the Poorhouse: Poems for the Proletariat (2025), Stuffed: Love Poems for Assholes (2025), In Real Life (2026), and Hell Cat: Poems for Cunts (2026).
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NEW RELEASE
Hell Cat: Poems for Cunts
The ferocious new collection
by
Maegen McAuliffe O'Leary