Meira Drazin
Meira was in the lowest reading group in first grade, although once she finally learned to read she never stopped and will read almost anything (unless it’s way too scary) in almost any genre. She studied literature at Barnard College and has an MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
Meira’s debut novel, Honey and Me, published by Scholastic Press, won a Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor and was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, as well as a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year, a Cooperative Center for Children’s Books Choices selection, and a PJ Library/Our Way selection. Pitched as a ‘Jewish Penderwicks’ or All-of-a-Kind Family meets Judy Blume, the novel is a funny and authentic coming-of-age story of a Jewish girl striving to forge her own identity in the shadow of her fearless best friend.
Originally from Toronto, Meira lived in New York for almost two decades and still returns each summer from London, where she now lives with her husband and four children (none of whom look anything like her) and their Lagotto Romagnolo (who does!).