Meg Elison was born May 10, 1982. Her military family moved frequently, living in Europe and more than a dozen US states. She left home at 14 and dropped out of high school, but later attended community college and completed her degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
Elison’s debut, feminist postapocalyptic novel
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (2014), won the Philip K. Dick Award and launched the Road to Nowhere series, which also includes Dick Award finalist
The Book of Etta (2017) and
The Book of Flora (2019). Her latest novel is her YA debut,
Find Layla (2020). She has published more than a dozen stories, some of which are collected in
This year has been the worst. 2020 has been awful and Iâm glad itâs behind us. While last year headlined a ton of negativities, there were still a few bits of positive sprinkled throughout the last 12 months.Â
At this point we all know that a novel, or maybe two, could be written on the horrible things that were featured in 2020. However, I wanted my first published story of 2021 to be a positive one, so I felt a look back at some of the awesome, cool, fun, joyful and amazing things I got to do and cover in 2020 would be both appropriate and refreshing.