Kim Merrill was the winner of this year's Literary Awards Writing Competition in fiction. Her plays have won awards and been produced regionally and off-off-broadway. Her memoir, "Red Girl Jumping," won the 2024 Kenneth Patchen Award for Experimental Fiction. An excerpt from her novel-in-progress, "Hilda's House," appeared in Action, Spectacle. Her writing has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Merrill lives in New York City.
Awards: 2026 Tucson Festival of Books prize for a fiction excerpt
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