Meta Wagner

Meta Wagner is the author of What's Your Creative Type?: Harness the Power of Your Artistic Personality (Seal Press/Hachette). She is a contributor to Boston Globe opinion pages, was a columnist for PopMatters, and has written on pop culture and creativity for Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Salon, and Wall Street Journal custom studios. She is a sought-after speaker on creative motivation and has done a TEDx talk and spoken at corporate events and conferences, including U. Mass Lowell’s Women’s Leadership Conference, The Actors Conference, and Muse and the Marketplace, the nation’s leading literary conference.

Meta also molds young minds as an adjunct professor at Emerson College and Boston University. She developed and teaches a “cult favorite” seminar called “Creativity in Context” (the springboard for her book) along with classes in creative non-fiction and communications writing. She has also taught at Grub Street and Wheelock College.

Meta was previously in executive positions in the marketing and public relations fields and received multiple awards from professional organizations.

She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, where she was chosen as the student commencement speaker.