About MeiaMeia (pronounced may-ah) Geddes is a writer, artist, librarian at the Boston Public Library, founder of Poetose, and MFA candidate and Teaching Fellow at UMass Boston.
Born in Hefei, China, and adopted and raised in California, she holds a B.A. from Brown University and M.S. Simmons University. After graduating from college, Meia worked for a year in South Africa as a Fulbright fellow. She has also received funding support from the American Library Association and Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Over the years, Meia has worked as... a bookseller, ESL teacher, a temp in various office environments, in food prep, a cashier, a "performing artist" on Mass Ave selling origami paper crane and other items in front of the now-eliminated Au Bon Pain ("the crane lady"), in communications at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and in technical services at Harvard University's Widener Library. She has had the pleasure of interning with Arrowsmith Press and Black Ocean Press, at an online news platform, and at a museum in archives. Read some of Meia's poems. Read Meia's artist statement. Thank you for visiting! |
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"...I squeezed in half a poetic thought this morning..."
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"Geddes has a generous view of people, art, and nature, and it comes across beautifully..." |
Meia Geddes and her mother and an aloe vera in the background because how awesome are those
Excerpt from a letter to self written at Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
