Meg Waite Clayton

My second novel, THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS, which will be published by Ballantine in April 2008, is already getting great responses. Caroline Leavitt, author of Girls in Trouble and Coming Back to Me, calls it "Richly intelligent, deeply felt and incandescently original ... heartbreaking, funny, and undeniably smart ... the kind of book you don't just want to pass on to all your friends. You have to." (Check out my website for more!) I've also published short stories and essays in Runner's World and Writers' Digest, and in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Other Voices, The Literary Review and numerous other literary magazines. My personal essay, "The Forever of Remembering" was anthologized in SEARCHING FOR MARY POPPINS. I've been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, as well as an "emerging voices" author at BookExpo 2004, and my debut novel, THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT, was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize. I live in Palo Alto, California, with my husband and our two sons.