What, Why, How: Ellen Meeropol

What:

I imagine my novels balancing on a tightrope stretched between the issues that are important to me (racial and social justice, the climate emergency, feminism) and the characters who live inside the stories that grow from those themes, characters who try to figure out how to make a difference in the world. My manuscripts never start with theme or issue—they begin with characters in some kind of trouble—but they usually end up there. I consider myself a member of the Kurt Vonnegut s...