Meredith Winn

Meredith Winn is a writer with the heart of an artist, weaving a universal experience from personal story. She is the author of Uncertain Behavior (July 2025) and Perfectly Imperfect, collected essays 2010-2015 (Folly Cove Publishing 2025).

Meredith Winn has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines since 2007. She worked as the Associate Editor of Taproot Magazine (2012-2018), as editor to Shutter Sisters (2009-2012), and has been published in DP Magazine, Taproot, Ladies Home Journal, Mothering Magazine, Literary Mama, Midwifery Today, Motherverse, and Hip Mama.

In April 2010, Meredith Winn won BlogHer’s Voice of the Week award for her essay titled 1970. This quote describing Meredith’s writing style is from Lisa Stone, co-founder of BlogHer: “Meredith Winn’s story of crisis is unfolding, raw. Like a disciple of Pynchon, she sounds halfway into her tale when the reader joins. Winn shares an agonizingly slow-motion crisis - a mother’s disintegrating mind and the rest of the family’s unravelling grief. This writer’s prose is so spare she doesn’t even need capital letters. But her message is beautifully wrought, as unwavering as the disease that is tearing her mother out of the family’s arms, day by day.”

Meredith studied Forestry at Virginia Tech University (1993-1996) and ran a solar installation company for a decade into the early 2000’s. She was born on the West coast, spent her childhood on the East coast, lived as a young adult in the Rocky Mountains and became a mother in the American South. She relocated to New England from Austin, Texas in 2011. Meredith spends her nights writing and her days working as a printmaker and vintage shopkeeper. She and her husband raised their blended family in an off-grid yurt nestled in the mountains and now they live by the tides. You can find her on an island three miles out to sea, off the coast of Portland, Maine.