Currently, Elison resides in Oakland, California and works as a full-time writer.

Later, she adopted these topics in her work as well. During the early days of her career, Elison was highly active in speaking and writing extensively about early queer identity and poverty. Eventually, Elison completed her graduation from Mount San Jacinto College of UC Berkeley. She dropped out of high school and joined a community college system in California. A female protagonist battles the male-dominated oppressive regime.įollowing the grand success of her first two books, Elison came up with the third book with the hope that it would achieve the same amount of success as the previous 2 novels, if not more. In the sequel novel, Elison has described the revisit to the plague survivors’ community after several generations. The story follows the life of a surviving medical provider, who goes through a lot of struggles in finding civilization and providing medical care and birth control to the females she comes across in her path. She has written the book primarily in the journal format. In her first novel, Elison has described a post-apocalyptic feminist examination of women’s plight following a global epidemic. The works of author Elison have appeared in various markets, including Terraform, Catapult, Electric Literature, Fantasy & Science Fiction, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. In 2017, she was nominated again for the same award for her second book, The Book of Etta. Dick Award in 2014 for her debut book called The Book of Unnamed Midwife.

Elison is also a reputed feminist essayist and likes to incorporate female empowerment, gender flexibility, and body positivity themes in her books. She is particularly famous for writing The Road to Nowhere series. Meg Elison is a renowned American novelist of science fiction, dystopia, fiction, and post-apocalyptic novels.

The book of the unnamed midwife plot