Hello there! Welcome to my website! I’m so excited you want to know more about me. I hope we become great friends.

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The Fun, Personal Bio:

My name is Lily Meade.

I was born and raised in Washington state (the one with coffee, not congress), the second oldest and only girl of four. I like to think I was a cool kid (my mother was an ice cream lady, I mean… come on), but that is debatable.

I believe stories have power.

I strive to live by the motto of a life inspired by fiction. I come from a background of extreme poverty (I’m currently homeless) and live with a chronic illness, so I know just how powerful hope can be when you're on a difficult journey.

I believe anyone can achieve their own happy ending, no matter how bleak things may currently seem. I'm a passionate advocate of at risk youth outreach and reading programs.

My debut novel THE SHADOW SISTER is out now with Sourcebooks Fire. My ultimate career goal is to be hired to write a modern YA reboot of Scooby Doo. My latest book, THE HEX GIRLS: A ROGUE THORN, is a modern YA Scooby Doo novel with Random House Children’s. It’s available now!

My new ultimate career goal is to be hired to write anything in the Jurassic World universe. Please let me feed fictional people to dinosaurs.

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The “Serious Business” Bio:

Lily Meade is the author of the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award finalist and Locus Recommended Read, THE SHADOW SISTER, as well as the officially licensed Scooby-Doo novel THE HEX GIRLS: A ROGUE THORN. Her work has been published or featured in Publishers Weekly, Bustle, Teen Vogue, Romper, BuzzFeed, and Rolling Stone. When not writing books, she’s tending The Lore Garden, a Patreon community devoted to writing, creativity, and a world inspired by fiction.

The “Nothing But Silly Facts” Bio:

Lily Meade writes young adult science fiction and fantasy novels inspired by real world issues. She is a “cursed double Gemini” who cries way too easily over fictional deaths (she once cried when a zombie died on The Walking Dead), loves Taylor Swift unconditionally, and adores storytelling so much she started a YouTube channel simply for another excuse to talk about it.