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 + communication. Our mission is to 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 was founded in 2023 by Maegen McAuliffe O'Leary, a poet and mother from the Pacific Northwest. Her 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 (Bottlecap Press, 2022), Full Belly: Poems (The Finished Project, 2024), Richest Bastard in the Poorhouse: Poems for the Proletariat (The Finished Project, 2025), and Stuffed: Love Poems for Assholes (available May 1, 2025, from The Finished Project).