Meredith Scribbles

As a novelist, short story author, and poet, I spend most of my time trying to capture the beauty and emotion of the world in ways that anyone can understand. I’m driven by the kind of stories that change people, and I’m constantly trying to create works that live up to the legacies of the authors that have so inspired me.

My work has won contests through Write Michigan, The Makeshift Review, and Elegant Literature, and my blog, Confessions of a Misplaced Bookworm, highlights the creative chaos of the writing life. I’m currently seeking publication for my debut novel, Street Survivors, a YA coming-of-age where magical realism meets modern dystopia.

I earned BFAs in Creative Writing and Creative Innovation, and I spent the best summer of my life studying at the University of Oxford. I’d give anything to relive walking past Magdalen College, studying in the Radcliffe Camera, or hearing wood pigeons cooing in the park.

I’ve held positions as a writing tutor, an editor for the Makeshift Review, and a freelance developmental editor. I’ve taught elementary writing workshops at McBain and Forest Area Schools, and I taught middle school and high school English for a teacher on maternity leave.

As a student, I participated in many writing workshops myself including Front Street Writers, The Young Writer’s Workshop, The Next CS Lewis Fellowship, National Writers Series Summer Workshop with author Kevin Fitton, and two MFA-Based workshop seminars. My next upcoming adventure features Scriptoria 2026, a two-week writing retreat in Dundee, Scotland with authors Cynthia Beach, Hugh Cook, and Gary D. Schmidt.

When I’m not writing, you can find me at the beach, curled up in a coffee shop with an iced lavender latte, or staring wistfully at the sunset. Other pastimes include practicing a British accent in the mirror, lamenting that I never got my Hogwarts letter, or waiting for a mad man in a blue box to materialize and take me to see the stars.