Discipline: Literature – poetry

Jeredith Merrin

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Chandler, AZ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999, 2001

Jeredith Merrin and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Anglo-American Poetry and Poetics. Cup, a special honoree in the 2013 Able Muse Book Award, is her third collection; her previous books are Shift and Bat Ode (University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poets series). She's authored an influential book of criticism on Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop. Her reviews and essays (on Moore, Bishop, Clare, Mew, Amichai, and others), and poems have appeared in Paris Review, Slate, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere