As such, her early influences and the creative mythology, she came up with as a child often inspire many of her characters and storylines. It became wired into her psyche as it was introduced into her system even before her bodily immune system was fully developed. She particularly remembers “Alice in Wonderland “by Lewis Carroll that became almost like a religion for the budding author. Meredith Pierce was also a voracious reader of books and these played a significant role in fueling her imagination, as she was already reading at the library by the time she was three years old. She was always imagining herself in a different setting and she asserts that it felt like she was doing role-playing games in the mold of “Dungeons and Dragons” though such types of games were yet to be invented. She played with everything she could get her hands on whether it was animate or inanimate. As a child, she loved collecting stuffed animals and at some point, she imagined herself living in an alternate world with her stuffed animals.

Pierce developed her creativity and imagination when she would entertain herself as a child. She currently lives in her solar-powered house in the small town of Micanopy, Florida. When she is not writing her novels, she can be found playing her harp and composing music. She now works a 9-5 as a librarian and writes in the night and during the weekends. Born in Seattle in Washington, Pierce went to the University of Florida from where she got her bachelor’s and masters before she went to Florida State University, where she graduated with an MLS. These women usually face all manner of dangers and hazards as they try to save their world and their way of life and will usually not receive recognition or respect for their efforts until much later in the story.

However, she often goes against convention by writing in young women who wish to be loved and love. She is known for writing novels in the fantasy world in mythical settings. Meredith Ann Pierce is an American young adult, fantasy, and science fiction author best known for the “Firebringer” and “Darkangel” series of novels.

The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce