Professional Bio
Meredith Ackroyd is a poet, artist, and mother, with an MFA in Children’s Literature from Hollins University, where she studied the writing of poetry for children, and a BA in English from the College of William and Mary. Her poetry has been published in Root & Star, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and tinywords, among other publications, and her scholarly writing has been published in the book Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden: A Children’s Classic at 100. She lives in a hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia with her husband and two daughters, and her writing is inspired by the natural world that surrounds her home.
