This website contains a selection of fiction and nonfiction work, both published and otherwise unpublished, by Meredy Amyx. It does not include work that is currently being offered to literary magazines and other print and online publications.

Hundreds of Meredy's articles, essays, and short fiction pieces have appeared in organizational publications. Her short story "Brian" won her a scholarship to the 2006 East of Eden Writers Conference. Two out of four entries to ByLine magazine contests have placed in the top three and won cash prizes. Her story "There's the Pitch" won second place in the 2008 Basil Stevens Wriring Contest. In September 2008 her short story "Recursion" won first place in the short story contest at the East of Eden Writers Conference in Salinas, California. Her essay "Losing the Apostrophic War" won the nonfiction award for the semiannual WritersTalk Challenge of the South Bay Writers.

Meredy Amyx is a professional editor and avocational writer living in San Jose, California. A native of New England, Meredy attended now-extinct Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa, graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in English, and has lived on the West Coast since 1977. She has worked both as a freelance editor for book publishers and assorted private clients and as a full-time editor in publications departments of several high-tech corporations. She is an active member of South Bay Writers, a branch of the California Writers Club. Her interests include writing, reading, language, art, classical music and opera, folklore and mythology, Zen, philosophy, psychology, and rational thought.

Visit Meredy's personal website at MetaphoricalDwelling.com.

 

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