Megan Merchant (she/her) is the owner of the editing, manuscript consultation, and mentoring business Shiversong (www.shiversong.com) and holds an M.F.A. degree in International Creative Writing from UNLV. She is a visual artist and the author of three full-length poetry collections with Glass Lyre Press: "Gravel Ghosts" (2016), "The Dark’s Humming" (2015 Lyrebird Award), "Grief Flowers" (2018), four chapbooks, and a children’s book, "These Words I Shaped for You" (Penguin Random House). “A Slow Indwelling,” a book of epistolary poems, was also recently released with Harbor Editions. Her book, "Before the Fevered Snow," came into the world in April 2020 with Stillhouse Press (NYT New & Noteworthy). She was awarded the 2016-2017 COG Literary Award, judged by Juan Felipe Herrera, the 2018 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, second place in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Inaugural Michelle Boisseau Prize, a finalist in the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and, most recently, the New American Poetry Prize for her full-length collection “Hortensia, in Winter”. She is the Editor of Pirene’s Fountain. You can find her poetry and artwork at https://meganmerchant.wixsite.com/poet
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