About
Merrill Feitell earned her MFA in fiction writing at Columbia University and her first book, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her short stories have appeared in such publications as American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, Hamptons Shorts, and Best New American Voices, earning her fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
With lifelong interests in photography and book arts, she began integrating photography and form-play into her written work. Her text-image narratives have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Electric Literature, Switchyard, and Los Angeles Review of Books.
Bringing short-story expertise to book arts, she also conceives of and creates story-specific book-forms, writing and hand-making sculptural, interactive book-objects, offering readers a sensory and experiential understanding of stories along with an intellectual one.
He ghostwrites for me—so I can ghostwrite for you.
Teaching
With a distinct command of storytelling technique and a dexterous understanding of narrative structure and possibility, Merrill has been teaching creative writing to undergraduate, graduate, continuing education, and independent writers for more than two decades, offering incisive editorial feedback, generative guidance, and substantial insight into developing narrative momentum and cohesion.
Editing & Ghostwriting
Leveraging remarkable tonal control and an exceptionally inventive sense of narrative structure, Merrill is also commissioned by authors, literary agents, PR teams, and publishers to write, edit, and reshape memoir, fiction, and nonfiction projects for mainstream, literary, academic, and corporate publication, crafting works that are true to client voice and vision.
Branding & Content
With a robust command of language, tonal control, and marketing savvy, Merrill has a knack for developing and sustaining brand voice and sensibility, successfully calibrating it to produce cohesive, compelling, and effective content for use across multiple platforms.