Meghana Narayan is a children’s book author, illustrator, and fine artist living just outside of Baltimore, Maryland. Her visual work is rich with texture, often mimicked from patterns and colors found in nature. As a children’s book creator, she feels a great responsibility in creating space for the stories that often go untold. Meghana seeks to bring out the voices and narratives that she was yearning for as a child—those characters that have rich histories and powerful stories to tell. She draws from her experiences as a child of Indian immigrants when creating her stories and art. Between the layers there is a sense of universality that helps to create bridges between us all. When Meghana is not in her studio, she is reading and creating alongside her daughters (5 and 2 year olds), who are her greatest inspiration. She loves to get dirt beneath her fingernails and watch her garden transform every year.
Meghana Narayan
