Meredith Blevins

Meredith was lucky to grow up in a complicated family that loved the feel and sound of wheels rolling down the highway. They drove back highways around the country every summer, never using the air conditioner because the car would overheat.

She was the youngest, and no one seemed to have an internal editor. She laid on the floor in the backseat, writing stories and illustrating them, while the family gossiped:

Broke folks pretending not to be, rich relations who never picked up the tab. The family sweetheart in jail for kiting checks, steamy love affairs, sudden deaths. Gay folks posing as uptight evangelists. All talk was punctuated by a lot of laughs, often ending the family up on roads that weren’t on a map. The family stew was hot, fertile material.

As a grown-up, Meredith kept making up stories while she worked a load of random jobs. Dental assistant, postal clerk, bank teller, ticket lady at concerts, etc. She usually quit just before she got fired. After a couple of kids, she went back to college and then started work as a creative arts therapist. She believes that art – all the arts – is a cure and healing for everything.

She was an active member of SABEW, Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, and has taught at OU and the University of California. She is an award-winning travel writer and editor.

Meredith has had nine books traditionally published, was married to her true love, lives in the Southwest, and has a big complicated family of her own.