Meg Burden is the award-winning author of Northlander, Book One of the Tales of the Borderlands series, which she began writing when she was twenty-two years old. She's currently twenty-seven and has lived in rural Nebraska for most of her life.

At fourteen, she went to college via Mary Baldwin College's Program for the Exceptionally Gifted in Virginia. She graduated with a degree in music in May 2000, the day before her eighteenth birthday. After taking a year off to spend time with her family, she headed back to Virginia, this time to UVa, and spent a year in a PhD program for music. Somewhere in there, she fell in love, got engaged, adopted two cats, and figured out that she wanted to be a writer.

Meg and her husband currently live with a lot of cats and their toy Poodle in a neat old house in a tiny Nebraska town.

In addition to writing, Meg raises Siamese cats. In the past, she has been a waitress, a bartender, a pizza cook, an assistant parrot breeder (her mom used to raise birds) and a graduate teaching assistant.

Meg has been a fan of science fiction and fantasy all her life. One of her earliest memories is of crying at the end of the cartoon version of The Hobbit, and she read the book soon after that and was hooked for life. Most of her favorite books growing up are still favorites today, and the authors whose works transported her to other worlds when she was growing up, like J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Patricia McKillip, Lloyd Alexander, and Susan Cooper, have places of honor both on her bookshelf and in her heart. Meg hopes to bring the same sense of wonder, escapism, and possibility to the books she writes.