Meia Geddes grew up in California and came to the east coast to attend college at Brown University. After college, she went to live and work in South Africa for about a year thanks to a Fulbright grant. She then came to Boston for her master’s in library and information science at Simmons, and is now a librarian at the Boston Public Library. She has written two books, The Little Queen and Love Letters to the World, and is working on a third called Little World Forms: Experiments in Sentence-Level Utopias.