A Thousand Paper Cranes

Megan Merchant holds an MFA in international creative writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and lives in Prescott, Arizona. Glass Lyre Press published three of her full-length collections: The Dark's Humming, winner of the 2015 Lyrebird Award, Gravel Ghosts (2016), and Grief Flowers (2018). Before the Fevered Snow appeared from Stillhouse Press in 2020, followed by Hortensia, in Winter in 2024. She won the 2016-2017 COG Literary Award, judged by Juan Felipe Herrera, the 2018 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, and the inaugural Michelle Boisseau Prize. She edits the journal Pirene's Fountain and wrote the children's book These Words I Shaped for You.