Children’s Author Talk with Meika Hashimoto

Meika Hashimoto is an award-winning picture book, graphic novel, and middle grade novel writer. She grew up on a shiitake mushroom farm in Rumford, Maine. After getting an English Literature degree at Swarthmore College, she worked in the White Mountains of New Hampshire before starting her career as a children’s book editor for Random House. A decade later, she moved back to her beloved home state, where she edits and writes books in her mountain home next to her husband, daughter, and two rescue dogs.