Merrill Feitell

I was born and raised in New York City and my first book, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. My stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, VQR, American Short Fiction, Best New American Voices, and others, and short-listed in Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. I began studying creative writing at UC Santa Cruz and went on to earn my MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. I’ve been a fellow at Yaddo, MacDowell, VCCA, and Bread Loaf, and I’ve taught creative writing for over a decade at many institutions, including Pratt, California Institute of the Arts, Cal State San Bernardino, Colorado College, University of Maryland, Columbia University, and the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension.