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 novel When You Live by a River, (Narrative Library, 2012), 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.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Visitation, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011
- How Do We Bury the Dead, poetry, in Spring 2010
- East Toledo, Ohio, an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2008–2009
- Leenie, a novel excerpt, in Fall 2012