About...

Meg Waite Clayton first novel, The Language of Light, was a St. Martin's Fresh Fiction selection, and a finalist for the Bellwether Prize. Her stories have sold to Ms. and to literary magazines, and her essays to Runner's World, Writers' Digest, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Searching for Mary Poppins (Penguin/Hudson Street Press, Oct. 2006). She is a graduate of The University of Michigan Law School, and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She currently lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband and their two sons.