{"id":30,"date":"2016-01-12T22:15:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mra.midey.org\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2024-09-15T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T20:29:03","slug":"life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meredithackroyd.com\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meredithackroyd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bio-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-105 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/meredithackroyd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bio-pic-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"bio pic\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meredithackroyd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bio-pic-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meredithackroyd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bio-pic-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meredith Ackroyd is a poet, artist, and mother.\u00a0 She is a graduate of the MFA program in Children&#8217;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.\u00a0 An internationally published and award-winning poet, her poetry has been published in <em>Modern Haiku<\/em>, <em>The Heron&#8217;s Nest<\/em>, <em>Frogpond<\/em>, <em>Kingfisher<\/em>, <em>#FemkuMag<\/em>, and <em>tinywords<\/em>, among other publications for both adults and children.\u00a0 In 2021, one of her poems won a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/touchstone-awards-for-individual-poems-2021\/\">Touchstone Individual Poems Award<\/a> from The Haiku Foundation.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To find out more about my life and work, you can check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/poet-details\/?IDclient=2814\">Haiku Registry listing<\/a> at The Haiku Foundation or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/meredithackroyd\/\">follow me on Instagram<\/a>, where I often share both my published poems and glimpses of my life at home in the mountains of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; 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