(ASL) Author Randy Susan Meyers reads and discusses her work!

Randy Susan Meyers is the international bestselling author of seven novels. The Massachusetts Council of the Book praised her clear and distinctive voice that captivates readers and leaves them yearning for more; naming three of her novels Mass Book Award finalists and Must Read Books; —alongside an Indie Next Pick and a Kirkus;10 Best Books of the Year selection.

Her latest, The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone (October 2024), follows a family from 1964’s Freedom Summer through the pandemic, asking what happens when saving the world collides with raising children. Booklist called it “another deeply felt, beautiful novel; with realistic, hard-hitting prose”.

Her work, exploring domestic drama alongside societal issues, has appeared in The New York Times, People, The Boston Globe, and the LA Times. Her novels are translated into more than 36 languages and were bestsellers in France, Holland, and Japan.

Years working with troubled youth, nonprofits, and criminal justice organizations—plus bartending in a small Boston bar—inform her writing on family, men’s secrets, and sexual politics. She co-chairs the Massachusetts chapter of Writers for Democratic Action. A Brooklyn native at home in Boston, Meyers lives by Flaubert’s advice: Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.