About Meera

Meera grew up in Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. As a kid, she read as much as she could, wrote and memorized poems, and spent many hours at her local public library, eventually volunteering there.

She attended the University of Virginia and Stanford Law School. After practicing public interest law for over a decade, she turned to creative writing. Her debut novel, The View from the Very Best House in Town, came out in 2022. It was named an Amazon Editor’s Pick, a 2023 CCBC Choice, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and was published in multiple countries. Her next novel, Snow, has also been named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard, and releases in 2025.

Meera loves to connect with readers and writers. She serves on the Board of the Writer’s Center and teaches at the Highlights Foundation.

Meera is represented by Molly Ker Hawn at the Bent Agency.

Meera Then and Now

Her family nickname (well, one of them at least) was “Monster” because, when asked why she was eating cookies before dinner, she replied, “Because I’m the cookie monster!” Meera is still very fond of cookies.

She grew up memorizing poetry--equal parts Shel Silverstein and William Shakespeare. She learned the poems “Sick” and “Smart” by Silverstein roughly around the same time she learned the “Friends, Romans, countrymen” soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Julius Ceasar. Even today, she thinks they are all masterpieces. 

Once, for an open-ended Calculus project she’d procrastinated far too long on, she wrote a collection of poems on calculus. One was actually published in a math newsletter! Notwithstanding that fun surprise, these days Meera tries not to procrastinate so much. 

Meera was a tour guide at the University of Virginia and got very good at walking backwards while telling stories about her college. Nowadays though, if she wants to tell a story, it is better if she is sitting down.

She didn’t grow up wanting to write novels or even thinking that was something she could do. But she sure loves it now.