Vera Meat

Vera Meat is a New York based writer and designer. She is a teller of winding tales, hunting the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Vera's love of storytelling began when her mother read her Swan Lake and her grandmother read her the Bible, which she said was a well written fiction book. She encouraged her to write her own one day.

Her grandfather Ghenna taught her to carve wood sculptures before age five, a skill she still uses for her accessories brand VeraMeat. After leaving the Ukraine and moving to New York, then Utah, Vera rode a Paso Fino horse named Roho and ate nachos with her best friend Angeline. Roho's mischievous charm opened up the unique world of animal mystery and contributed to the otherworldly element in her designs. Nature is heaven. Now is all we have, Dino Eating Fried Chicken vibes. Shortly after, she was discovered as an editorial model with DNA in New York and Nathalie in Paris.

Punk and blues also play a big part in her creations. She attributes this to studying piano and composition at a conservatory in Ukraine when she was four, and in a band in New York.

Vera always wanted to read more young female writers as a kid, so she wrote this book.