E-Mail Meghan Nuttall Sayres: mail@meghannuttallsayres.com

Meghan Nuttall Sayres writes and weaves in Eastern Washington where she lives with her husband, three children, two sheep and cat. She enjoys hiking, biking and skiing; and art and archaeology from around the world. Meghan spins her own yarns for tapestries, dyeing her wool with native plants. She has explored this craft in Ireland and Turkey and taught workshops abroad.

Ms. Sayres received a B.S. in Recreation Therapy from the University of Colorado and an MPA in International Rural Development from the University of Utah. She established the Department of Recreation Therapy, Physical Rehabilitation Services, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, and currently volunteers for Taipeis Gael, a tapestry weaving cooperative in Donegal, Ireland.

Much of her work reflect these interests, as well as environmental and cultural preservation. She has won awards for her children stories and adult essays, and has been published, at home and abroad. She enjoys speaking at schools and other venues. For further information about her writing or weaving workshops please see Author Appearances and Wooly Workshops.

Meghan Nuttall Sayres (center) receiving a fiction award at the Munster Literature Center, Cork, Ireland. Marie-Noelle Gaynor and Mandy Murphy presented the author with a commissioned, pastel portrait of Patricia Lynch. This prize was the runner up award for Meghan's children's story, Nettie's Charm.

The Patricia Lynch Competition 1998 commemorated the centenary of the birth of Patricia Lynch, a prolific children's writer who was born in Cork and set many of her stories there. She was also politically aware and one of the first eyewitness reporters of the 1916 Rising. She wrote for the suffragette newspaper, "The Dreadnought." Her books have been translated into French, German, Dutch, and Irish.

For more information on Munster Literature Center email: munsterlit@tinet.ie or www.sleeping-giant.ie/literature