Winn, Meredith: - Meredith Winn is a self taught, imperfect human who takes joy in the simple pleasure of being live. In her past life she worked as a pre-school teacher, seamstress, photographer, freelance writer, magazine editor, printmaker and textile designer. She studied foresty in college in the early 90's and ran a solar installation company for a decade into the early 2000's. Meredith was born on the West coast, spent her childhood on the East coast, lived as a young adult in the Rocky Mountains and became a mother in the American South. She and her son relocated to New England from Austin, Texas in 2011. Meredith is a bone cancer survivor and a year-round ocean swimmer. She and her husband raised their blended family in an off-grid yurt nestled in the mountains and now live by the tides on an island three miles out to sea, off the coast of Portland, Maine.