Meg Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes like she's running out of time.
“The science fiction analog to the Zika crisis.” —Slate
“As her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife captures the
spirit of Elison’s artistry. The human capacity to survive is
something authors have explored for as long as science fiction has
existed as a genre, but Elison brings to it her own definitions of
sexuality, resourcefulness, and determination.” —The Daily
Californian
“Elison paints a world so empty of long-term hope and driven by
short-term desperation that you’ll be haunted by it even when not
flipping the pages, yet the barest glimmer of light on the future’s
horizon will keep you moving forward.” —Adrian Liang, Amazon Book
Review
“Meg Elison’s exploration of femininity and women’s inequality is
unflinchingly honest. She doesn’t hold back when considering the
differences between men and women, those that naturally exist and
those that are constructed. Particularly, I appreciated Elison’s
ability to examine the ways in which women are treated when the
laws that protect them are gone. In other words, Elison shows that
it wouldn’t take much for society to regress. That the progress
we’ve made is an illusion unless people enforce it themselves.”
—Word After Word
“Elison’s future where men outnumber women ten to one or more is
brutal and frightening, mostly because it exposes how thin [a]
veneer of personhood women have now.” —Book Riot
“The Road to Nowhere trilogy asks big questions about a world
that’s more possible than we might imagine, and it’s a radically
queer treatise on the future of sex.” —LitReactor
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