Flynn Meaney is a published poet and writer, and an alumna of the University of Notre Dame. She was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and her young adult novella, Bennett Riley, appeared in Cicada Magazine in September 2007. She was a semi-finalist in Amazon’s 2009 Breakthrough Novel Contest with Mouthing the Alma Mater.Flynn says she was inspired to write Bloodthirsty by a broad love of pop culture vampires, especially HBO’s True Blood, but the final catalyst was a comment from a friend, ‘Now that vampires are so hot, we can stop tanning.’
