Megan Frazer Blakemore

Biography

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Megan Frazer Blakemore is an author for children and young adults. Her YA novel, Secrets of Truth & Beauty, was published by Disney-Hyperion in July of 2009 using the name Megan Frazer. Her debut MG novel, The Water Castle, was published by Walker Books for Young Readers in January of 2013. Coming in 2014, from Bloomsbury: The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill. She graduated from Columbia with a degree in English and was in the first class to complete the Undergraduate Creative Writing Certificate Program. She has taught writing to high school students and through the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing. She is represented by Sara Crowe of Harvey Klinger, Inc.

Megan has over ten years experience as a librarian, including two as a children’s librarian and nine as a school librarian. Her Masters in Library Science was earned from Simmons GSLIS. She is currently “on hiatus” from being a librarian, focusing on her writing and her family. As a librarian, she focused on raising reading achievement and giving voice to students through such programming as Coffee Houses, a Film Festival, and various reading incentives. She has written for Knowledge Quest and Library Media Connection.

Megan lives in Maine with her husband and two children as well as a cat (and dreams of a dog and keeping bees).

Megan Frazer Blakemore