Meredith Stout
THROUGH MY LENS
Now in my eighties, I was raised in Southern California in the 1940's, and am
a long-time resident of Berkeley. Educated at Vassar College, I married young and have lived two lives: the first as a mom and faculty wife; the second as a freelance photographer and Director of the Sisters Project, a non-profit multimedia art organization.
Active in social justice after a mid-life divorce, I volunteered as a photographer at a women's daytime shelter where I became involved with a formerly homeless African-American poet. We collaborated to create the non-profit organization, The Sisters Project with its powerful multimedia performance of photographs and spoken poetry designed to educate the community about homelessness.
In 2014, with Theo Cavanaugh and Ruth Cox, I published A Basket of Words, an anthology of
twenty years of writing together. The book is available on Amazon in both paperback and audible versions. I am currently preparing my own memoir, Out of My Shoes, for publication.
In 2014, I joined Ruth Cox and Theo Cavanaugh to
publish A Basket of Words, an anthology of twenty years of writing together.
I am currently preparing my own memoir, Out of My Shoes, for publication in the spring of 2020.