Elizabeth Merrick

Elizabeth Merrick is the founder and director of the Grace Reading Series and editor of forthcoming Random House anthology THIS IS NOT CHICK LIT. She received a BA from Yale, an MFA from Cornell, and an MA in Creativity and Art Education from San Francisco State. Recent honors include fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, and VCCA. She has taught at NYU and Cornell, and currently lives in New York where she works as a writing coach and runs a small writing school.