Edie Meidav was born in Toronto and has lived in New York, Cuba, France, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka and other international zones. A former director of the MFA program at New College on Valencia Street in San Francisco, she divides her time between California and New York, where she is a writer-in-residence at Bard College. As a child, she acted as if language were indeed a virus.
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and homages have been published in Ms., The Village Voice, The Kenyon Review, Terra Nova, The American Voice, New Letters, Conjunctions and elsewhere. She has received a Lannan Fellowship, a Howard Fellowship, a Bard Fiction Prize for Writers Under 40, a Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman, a Fulbright in Sri Lanka, and her books have been called editorial picks by the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Electric Review, the Litblog Coop and elsewhere.