Meredy Amyx knew at the age of six that she would be a writer one day. At seven she wrote a five-chapter mystery entitled “The Man with a Gun.” Then her creative-writing self went into hibernation for nearly half a century, breaking its slumber only for special purposes, such as when she had to write papers on books she hadn’t read.

Meredy went through school, acing a few more writing assignments than she deserved to, and got a degree in English. Following a varied early career that ranged from programming on a 1970 vintage IBM computer to purchasing materials for a metal fabrications plant, she became a freelance manuscript editor in 1981.

Editing has been her livelihood ever since; she is currently employed in high-tech documentation at Cisco Systems. She has also served as volunteer editor-in-chief of assorted small newsletters and the national magazine of American Mensa. Over the past three decades the novelist in her slumbered while she wrote more than a hundred articles, essays, editorials, interviews, poems, and puzzles and gave them away, mostly to Mensa publications. Her website, metaphoricaldwelling.com, showcases some of those. 

In 2001, her long-dormant fiction author suddenly woke up, as if to an alarm clock or the arrival of spring. She joined South Bay Writers Club in 2005 and found the company of other writers to be a stimulus, an inspiration, and a consolation. Meredy is currently at work on a novel about a young woman who risks her life to flee a cult and save a child. That writerly self is at last wide awake, fulfilling a pledge to write every day without fail, and eager to tell its dream.

Visit Meredy's writing website: http://meredyamyx.com/