About

Merie Kirby grew up in California and attended the College of Creative Studies at UCSB for her B.A. in Literature. She earned her M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She lives in Grand Forks, ND and teaches at the University of North Dakota. She is the author of The Dog Runs On: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2014) and The Thumbelina Poems (Red Bird Chapbooks, forthcoming 2015). In 2013 she received a North Dakota Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant. In September 2014 she was a participating poet in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project, writing and posting to the 30/30 Project blog a new poem a day for 30 days. Her poems have been published in Willow Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Avocet, and other journals; she also writes operas and art songs in collaboration with composers.