Professional Bio
Meredith Ackroyd is a poet, artist, and mother. She is a graduate of the MFA program in Children’s Literature at Hollins University, where she studied the writing of poetry for children, and she has a BA in English from the College of William and Mary. An internationally published and award-winning poet, her poetry has been published in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, Kingfisher, #FemkuMag, and tinywords, among other publications for both adults and children. In 2021, one of her poems won a Touchstone Individual Poems Award from The Haiku Foundation. She lives in a hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia with her husband and two children, and her writing is inspired by the natural world that surrounds her home.
To find out more about my life and work, you can check out my Haiku Registry listing at The Haiku Foundation or follow me on Instagram, where I often share both my published poems and glimpses of my life at home in the mountains of Virginia.