Nancy L. Meyer

she/her, landed in the SF Bay Area in 1977 completing a circle from western MA. and Kingston, Jamaica. Avid cyclist, grandmother of 5, she is passionate about building community through her writing and social action.

She took up poetry after her professions as a social worker, women’s leadership educator and organization development consultant in healthcare. For ten years she volunteered as an End of Life counselor, is an active member of her San Francisco neighborhood, and a long term member of the Women’s Collaborative Leadership Community.

Nancy has served on the Boards of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, the Stanford Cantor Center for the Arts, and the Montalvo Arts Center where she helped re-launch their Artist Residency.

The sun setting through a dense forest.
Wind turbines standing on a grassy plain, against a blue sky.
The sun shining over a ridge leading down into the shore. In the distance, a car drives down a road.

A Pushcart and Best of the net nominee, she has published poems in over 50 journals in the United States and United Kingdom, including Tupelo Quarterly, The Colorado Review, McNeese Review, Laurel Review, Sugar House Review, Feral, and Halfway Down the Stairs. She is also included in 9ABOUTanthologies and a recipient of a Hedgebrook Residency. Her first full length collection The Stoop and The Steeple is forthcoming in Sep 2024 from Frog on the Moon Press.