Friday, January 16, 2009

Merle Drown


Merle Drown, a former high school English teacher, teaches fiction. He has written short stories, essays, plays, reviews, a screenplay, and two novels, “Plowing Up a Snake” and “The Suburbs of Heaven,” which Barnes and Noble selected for its Discover Great New Writers series. He co-edited with John Cawelti “Meteor in the Madhouse,” the posthumous novellas of Leon Forrest.

Drown has studied at Macalester College, the University of Washington and in the original low-residency M.F.A. program at Goddard College, where he studied under John Irving, Richard Rhodes and Richard Ford. He has taught creative writing at New England College and now teaches workshops for the New Hampshire Writers’ Project and businesses, and is an editor, actor and ghost writer. He has received fiction writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Hampshire Arts Council.


www.drown.com

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