Merrill Feitell was born and raised in New York City. Her first book, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the 2004 Iowa Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in many publications, including the Best New American Voices series, and have been short-listed in Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Awards. She was selected as one of Fiction’s New Luminaries in the Virginia Quarterly Review, has been a fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and was the Theodore Morrison Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf in 2005.

She studied writing in college at UC-Santa Cruz and went on to earn her MFA from Columbia University. She currently teaches at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and will be joining the faculty at University of Maryland in the fall.

She is at work on a novel, a screenplay, and new stories.

You can contact her through merrill@merrillfeitell.com or through myspace.