Meg Stout writes historical fiction based on the lives of real people, uniting a physicist’s curiosity with the storyteller’s gift as she brings the dead to life in her books.

Meg became fascinated by true tales after learning her parents had to leave the state to get married. (Marriage between whites and asians was considered “Void and Prohibited” at the time.)

Meg’s first attempt to tell her stories in fictional form occurred in 2006 for National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo). To her surprise, Meg found fiction took more rigor than mere documentary, since fiction required she make sense out of the facts of people’s lives. This has illuminated fascinating possibilities - exactly the things people would be desperate to conceal and keep out of the “extant” records…

Meg is a 2007 graduate of Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. In 2008 she studied novel-writing with Dave Wolverton in St. George, Utah. Meg lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and daughters.