Meia (pronounced may-ah) Geddes was born in Hefei, China, adopted and raised by her mother in Sacramento, California, and currently 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.
After graduating from college, Meia lived and worked in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on a Fulbright grant. She has also been the recipient of an American Library Association Spectrum Scholarship, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Leonard A. Slade Jr. Poetry Fellowship, and Brown University James P. Dunn Scholarship.
Meia loves writing poems, prose, and everything in-between, singing, painting, handmaking books, folding origami 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, on a Fulbright grant. She has also been the recipient of an American Library Association Spectrum Scholarship, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Leonard A. Slade Jr. Poetry Fellowship, and Brown University James P. Dunn Scholarship.
Meia loves writing poems, prose, and everything in-between, singing, painting, handmaking books, folding origami 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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"Geddes has a generous view of people, art, and nature, and it comes across beautifully..." -Kirkus Reviews
Meia Geddes and her mother