
Įlison "grew up a military brat with the United States ARMY" where she "lived all over the country." At fourteen she began working to support herself.

Elison's work has appeared in several markets, including Fantasy & Science Fiction, Terraform, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Catapult, and Electric Literature. Dick Award, and her second novel, The Book of Etta, was nominated for the award in 2017. Her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, won the 2014 Philip K.

Meg Elison is an American author and feminist essayist whose writings often incorporate the themes of female empowerment, body positivity, and gender flexibility.

Elison, at the San Francisco pop-up art exhibit Color Factory, 2017.
