My name is Meghan Ward, and I’m a writer and book editor who recently completed a memoir titled, “Paris On Less Than $10,000 a Day,” a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Paris modeling industry in the late 80s/early 90s. After graduating from UCLA in 1999 with a BA in English, I worked for three years as a newspaper editor and reporter before quitting in 2002 to substitute teach and tutor. In 2004 I enrolled at Mills College in Oakland to earn my MFA in Creative Writing, and, after graduating in 2006, I began renting an office at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, where I wrote the first, second and third drafts of my book. I live in Berkeley, CA, with my husband and two children.