Meghan Nuttall Sayres
Meghan Nuttall Sayres is a writer and tapestry weaver living in Washington State. She is author of a novel set in Iran Anahita's Woven Riddle, an ALA Top Ten Best Books YA and an Indie Pick 2007, which has been translated into Italian, Hebrew, Turkish and forthcoming in Spanish; Weaving Tapestry in Rural Ireland; The Shape of Betts Meadow: A Wetlands Story; and co-author of Daughters of the Desert: Tales of Remarkable Women from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions. Meghan has given writing workshops in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. In 2005 she was invited to speak at Iran's First International Children's Book Festival. April 2009 she traveled back to Iran as the first American to weave on Iran's World Peace Carpet. Her forthcoming novel Night Letter, set in early 20th century Persia, will be released November 2012, and her anthology Love and Pomegranates: Artists and Wayfarers on Iran Visit will be available spring 2013. Please visit her at www.meghannuttallsayres.com, twitter, goodreads and facebook.