Meg Beaudoin earned advanced degrees in clinical psychology and philosophy and maintained an active professional life as a psychologist and psychoanalyst for more than 20 years. Once she found clay, everything changed. Discovering clay was a homecoming and beginning, in 2005 she dedicated herself to the difficult and exciting task of learning a new field as an adult. In 2013, she left her career as a psychologist and moved to the woods of upstate New York where she has built a studio and a life as a full time potter making functional and sculptural ceramics in stoneware clays. Soon after her introduction to clay she had the opportunity to participate in a wood firing and fell in love with both the process and the resulting surfaces. Since 2008 she has fired her work in anagama kilns, in which each firing lasts from three to seven days.