Letter to self in response to a prompt at Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
Meia (pronounced may-ah) Geddes was born in Hefei, China, adopted and raised by her mother in Sacramento, California, and lives in Massachusetts as a librarian at the Boston Public Library. She holds a BA in English and Literary Arts from Brown University and MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons University. She is an MFA candidate at UMass Boston, intern with Arrowsmith Press and Black Ocean, and founder of Poetose.
After graduating from college, Meia lived and worked in Bloemfontein, South Africa, as a Fulbright fellow. She has also, with great gratitude, received funding from the American Library Association, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and her alma maters.
Meia loves writing poems, prose, and everything in-between, singing, painting, making books by hand, publishing books, folding paper cranes, growing plants, and generally creating beautiful things. She has written and published two books under her own name: The Little Queen, a novella about vocation and finding one’s place in the world, and Love Letters to the World, a book of missives addressed to the world as body, concept, and stranger. She has also written books in different genres under pen names.
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After graduating from college, Meia lived and worked in Bloemfontein, South Africa, as a Fulbright fellow. She has also, with great gratitude, received funding from the American Library Association, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and her alma maters.
Meia loves writing poems, prose, and everything in-between, singing, painting, making books by hand, publishing books, folding paper cranes, growing plants, and generally creating beautiful things. She has written and published two books under her own name: The Little Queen, a novella about vocation and finding one’s place in the world, and Love Letters to the World, a book of missives addressed to the world as body, concept, and stranger. She has also written books in different genres under pen names.
Thank you for visiting!
"Geddes has a generous view of people, art, and nature, and it comes across beautifully..." -Kirkus Reviews
Meia Geddes and her mother