Career
Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1966, and educated at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock. In 2001, Merritt received a grant from the Rona Jaffe Writers" Foundation and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. From 2003 to 2005, Merritt served as the Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College.
Merritt lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Merritt is the author of three collections of poems: Two Rooms (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009), Blessings and Inclemencies (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007) and A Protocol for Touch (Denton: UNT Press, 2000). Two Rooms: Poems:Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
