Mermer Blakeslee

WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:

Leenie, a novel excerpt, in Winter 2006
East Toledo, Ohio, an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2008–2009
How Do We Bury the Dead, poetry, in Spring 2010
Visitation, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011

Mermer Blakeslee is the author of the novels Same Blood and In Dark Water, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Drawing on her work as a professional skier, she wrote A Conversation with Fear. She was awarded the 2006 Narrative Prize for “Leenie,” an excerpt from her new novel, and was a finalist in Narrative’s First and Second Annual Poetry Contests. Blakeslee lives in the Catskill Mountains with her husband.

Photograph by Rose Mackiewicz.