Anna Meredith

Anna Meredith is a writer living on the Monterey Bay in California. She is currently researching and writing a novel and series following a selkie as she journeys around the world through many cultures, lives, and loves. Her background in anthropology and environmental education is supported by biologists, native consultants, and a motley crew of amazingly gifted artists, technical wizards, and a kid who loves stories.

What’s on Anna’s Desk

Books, books, too many to mention them all!

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• The Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses by Marianne Riedman
• We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Revised) by David Lewis

 

Papers in the Very Important Basket

• Post-its full of notes on traditional navigation in the South Pacific
• Notes from radically helpful publishing conference with Laura Davis and Janet Goldstein
• Interview notes from Burney LeBoeuf and Peter Cook on pinnipeds as shapeshifters with issues

 

Music to quiet the chatter

• Kitka‘s Nectar … listen in
• Appalachia Waltz / Ma, Meyer, O’Connor

 

Out the window

• Mystery beetle visitor, striped and two inches long
• Stars calling me to ponder navigating over dark waves

 

Various sundries

• Globe with ocean currents to be spun and puzzled over
• Tree of  Wisdom complete with Answer Box and Waiting Chair (or what happens when my kid finally gets me to play Legos)

 

The Anna Merediths I Am Not

I wish I had written this book,

though I know a few biologists

who may want it for their own.

Anna Meredith the Composer

Wow. Hope to meet her someday

when I visit the UK for selkie research