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Meg Charlton

Biography

Meg Charlton

Meg Charlton is a writer based in New York City. Her debut novel, VOYAGERS, is forthcoming from Harper. Other work has appeared in The Yale Review, Slate, Lux, Atlas Obscura and Vice, and the anthology  LETTER TO A STRANGER: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. Her writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and covered in Indiewire, Above the Law, and Australian National Radio's "Future Tense." She holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College and teaches at Sackett Street Writers. She is also the co-author of the Substack Self-Helpings. 

Meg Charlton

Books by Meg Charlton

Voyagers
by Meg Charlton - Fiction, Science Fiction

When the Signal arrives, the world changes overnight. Planes are grounded, satellites fail and speculation abounds. But for Alex, the Signal feels deeply personal. Decades ago, Alex and a girl named Ana both vanished for 36 hours while on vacation. When they returned, dazed but unharmed, the six-year-olds’ account of their experience had all the hallmarks of an alien abduction. The long months of child stardom forged a seemingly unbreakable bond between them --- until the mystery behind their disappearance began to tear them apart. Now, Alex is drawn back to the one person who might have answers. As the former best friends tentatively reunite, what starts as a quest to confront the reality of their original experience becomes a larger reckoning with friendship, faith, family and truth itself --- what it means to see the stories we tell ourselves for what they really are.