So I opened the About on the website and I can't quite put my finger on it, but the author is exactly who I imagined her to be after finishing the article.
I agree that her coworkers are mostly jerks, but it sounds like she too may not be the most pleasant person to keep around.
I stormed back to the website, arms filled with pitchforks ready to hand out, and was completely let down by the most tame About Me section my mind could have possibly summoned. I know you say you cant put your finger on it but can you elaborate a little bit?
For those of you too lazy to click through to it here is the text (followed by a bunch of photos of her in different fancy outfits/settings):
Meg Elison: Author & Essayist
Meg Elison is a California Bay Area author and essayist. She writes science fiction and horror, as well as feminist essays and cultural criticism. She is a Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards finalist. Her work has been on the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) longlist, nominated for the Audie Award, and won the Philip K. Dick Award. She has also been published in McSweeney’s, Shimmer, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Catapult, Terraform, and many other places.
She is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) and the National Writers Union (@paythewriter).
Her debut novel, "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. She has been an Otherwise Award honoree twice. Her YA debut, “Find Layla” was published in fall 2020 by Skyscape. It was one of Vanity Fair's Best 15 Books of 2020.
Elison is a high school dropout, a graduate of UC Berkeley, and writes like she’s running out of time.
I agree that her coworkers are mostly jerks, but it sounds like she too may not be the most pleasant person to keep around.