Megan Merchant (she/her) is the owner of the editing, manuscript consultation, and mentoring business Shiversong 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, the 2018 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, the Inaugural Michelle Boisseau Prize, and, most recently, won the New American Poetry Prize for her full-length collection Hortensia, in winter.