I’m proud to report that my story “The Cupcake Factory” was featured at American Short Fiction, where you can check out the story in print or audio—and read an accompanying author interview conducted by ASF's Erin McReynolds!
I'll be teaching at the amazing Todos Santos Writers' Workshop—and it's not too late to sign up! Workshops in fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Jan. 27–Feb. 4, 2018.
LA Peeps! I'm doing a reading Sunday afternoon in Highland Park with a bunch of great people at one of the coolest little bookstores on the planet! Come out, come out, wherever you are! 3PM Sunday, Sept. 10., 5002 York Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Merrill Feitell was born and raised in New York City. Her first book, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the Iowa Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in many publications, including Best New American Voices, Virginia Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, Hampton Shorts, Black Clock, Electric Literature, and American Short Fiction, and have been short-listed in Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. 
She has new work forthcoming from McSweeney’s.
She studied writing in college at UC-Santa Cruz and went on to earn her MFA from Columbia University. She has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, The Corporation of Yaddo, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Taos Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Bethesda Writers’ Center, which named her an Emerging Writer Fellow.
Merrill has taught fiction writing at Pratt Institute, SUNY Purchase, Colorado College, and she has served on faculty in the MFA program at University of Maryland and at Cal State San Bernardino. She is currently teaching at California Institute of the Arts, Todos Santos Writers’ Workshop, and UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. She has been Fiction Editor for Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety since 2007.
She lives in Los Angeles and is currently at work on a novel, new stories, and a series of essays about driving cross-country with her dog, who is a fine companion, yet a horrible driver. You can contact Merrill directly at merrill feitell (all one word) at gee mail dot com.
PS: Merrill is also a crackerjack copywriter with over a decade’s experience in branding, marketing, and word-smithing for a wide range of start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. (Want to check out her copywriting portfolio?)