Written primarily in a journal format, the first entry of the series, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (June 2014), follows one surviving medical worker as she struggles to find civilization and to provide birth control and medical care to the women that she meets. īetween 20, she published a trilogy of novels known as The Road to Nowhere, which detail the post-apocalyptic plight of women in the fallout of a global epidemic. She has written and spoken extensively on the poverty and early queer identity that came to inform much of her work. Before becoming a professional writer, non-fiction editor, and essayist, she had an interest in opera and medicine as possible vocations. Background Ī high school dropout, Elison advanced through the California community college system and ultimately graduated from UC Berkeley (2014) with a B.S. Elison has lived in Missouri, Savannah, Nevada, North Carolina, Utah, Southern California, and New York, contributing to her vast ability for distinct settings. Įlison "grew up a military brat with the United States ARMY" where she "lived all over the country." At fourteen she began working to support herself. Elison's work has appeared in several markets, including Fantasy & Science Fiction, Terraform, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Catapult, and Electric Literature. Dick Award, and her second novel, The Book of Etta, was nominated for the award in 2017. Her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, won the 2014 Philip K.
Meg Elison is an American author and feminist essayist whose writings often incorporate the themes of female empowerment, body positivity, and gender flexibility. Elison, at the San Francisco pop-up art exhibit Color Factory, 2017.
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