Meacham was born November 14, 1951, in
Newark,
Licking County,
Ohio. She studied Communications in
Antioch College in
Yellow Springs,
Ohio, where she met her husband,
Tappan King. They were married in 1978, and in 1980 bought a house on
Staten Island, which they spent eight years rehabilitating. Due to Meacham's severe arthritis, they relocated to the drier
Southwest in 1989. They lived in northeast
Tucson,
Arizona for 14 years before settling on a ranch south of Tucson close to the village of
Corona de Tucson. They keep cats and horses. ==Literary career==