Rae Meadows is the recipient of the 2019 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, the 2018 Hackney Literary Award for the novel, and a finalist for the 2018 Manchester Fiction Prize.

She is the author of I Will Send Rain (2016), which was shortlisted for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her first novel, Calling Out,received the 2006 Utah Book Award for fiction and was named an Entertainment Weekly Must Read, a Book Sense Notable Novel, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her second novel, No One Tells Everything, was named a Notable Novel by Poets & Writers and was awarded the Anne Powers Fiction Prize. Mercy Train (released in hardback as Mothers and Daughters) was chosen as a Target Emerging Authors selection and was published in multiple languages. Winterland is her fifth novel.

Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Contexts, Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology, and online at NPR, Lit Hub, and PEN Center USA.

Meadows received a B.A. in Art History from Stanford University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, NY. She can often be found at Chelsea Piers, training in adult gymnastics.