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 and Hebrew; 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. She holds a graduate degree in international rural development from the University of Utah. 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. She has studied the Turkish language through the University of Ankara's Tomer program in Istanbul and travels to Turkey whenever she can. She is presently at work on a novel set in Ireland and Turkey, and a diverse YA novel set in Syria and London. Follow her newest project Streetwise Istanbul on Facebook and Instagram...where you will get to know your Near Eastern neighbors living on both sides of the Bosporus.   Visit Meghan at www.meghannuttallsayres.com, facebook, and twitter.  

Anahita's Woven Riddle, an ALA Top Ten Best Books YA and an Indie Pick 2007