About Meg
I'm the author of
Northlander, Book One of the Tales of the Borderlands series. I'm twenty-five years old and have lived in rural Nebraska most of my life.
At fourteen, I went to college via Mary Baldwin College's Program for the Exceptionally Gifted in Virginia. I graduated with a degree in music in May 2000, the day before my eighteenth birthday. After taking a year off to spend time with my family, I headed back to Virginia, this time to UVa, and spent a year in a PhD program for music. Somewhere in there, I fell in love, got engaged, adopted two cats, and figured out that I wanted to be a writer.
My husband and I currently live with a lot of cats and our toy Poodle in a neat old house in the small Nebraska town where I grew up.
In addition to writing, I raise Siamese cats. In the past, I have been a waitress, a bartender, a pizza cook at one of the two convenience stores in my town, and a graduate teaching assistant.
I've been a fan of science fiction and fantasy all my life. One of my earliest memories is of crying at the end of the cartoon version of
The Hobbit. I read the book soon after that and was hooked for life. Most of my favorite books growing up are still favorites today, and the authors whose works transported me to other worlds when I was growing up, like J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Patricia McKillip, Lloyd Alexander, and Susan Cooper, have places of honor both on my bookshelf and in my heart. I hope to bring the same sense of wonder, hope, and possibility to the books I write.
