Background
Jeredith Merrin was born on April 19, 1944, California, United States.
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
The entrance to Iowa State University where Jeredith Merrin received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1968.
1 Washington Sq, San Jose, CA 95192, United States
San Jose State University where Jeredith Merrin completed a Master of Arts in English in 1978.
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
The University of California, Berkeley where Jeredith Merrin obtained a Ph. D. in Anglo-American Poetry and Poetics in 1987.
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
The entrance to Iowa State University where Jeredith Merrin received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1968.
1 Washington Sq, San Jose, CA 95192, United States
San Jose State University where Jeredith Merrin completed a Master of Arts in English in 1978.
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
The University of California, Berkeley where Jeredith Merrin obtained a Ph. D. in Anglo-American Poetry and Poetics in 1987.
(An influential book of criticism by Jeredith Merrin.)
An influential book of criticism by Jeredith Merrin.
https://www.amazon.com/Enabling-Humility-Marianne-Elizabeth-Tradition/dp/0813516234/?tag=2022091-20
1990
(The poetry collection traces the love between two women o...)
The poetry collection traces the love between two women over several years and explores the intricacies of family relationships.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226520633/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(The poems from the collection speak to the way we live to...)
The poems from the collection speak to the way we live today and how it feels to occupy such a mongrel, fast-changing, postmodern world.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226520579/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(Merrin’s third collection deftly muses on art, travel to ...)
Merrin’s third collection deftly muses on art, travel to exotic locations, nature’s gains and losses, the resiliency of spirit juxtaposed against the body’s frailty, the joys, and discords of the familial unit, and aging without bitterness.
https://www.amazon.com/Cup-Poems-Jeredith-Merrin/dp/1927409349/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(The lovely poetry collection contains poems about owls an...)
The lovely poetry collection contains poems about owls and human beings.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0996280979/?tag=2022091-20
2016
critic historian scholars poet
Jeredith Merrin was born on April 19, 1944, California, United States.
Jeredith Merrin spent her childhood in the Pacific Northwest.
She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University in 1968. Ten years later, Merrin completed a Master of Arts in English from San Jose State University which was followed in 1987 by a Ph.D. in Anglo-American Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jeredith Merrin started her career at the University of California, Berkeley where she served as an instructor in a gifted education program from 1983 to 1985. Two years after she left the post, Merrin became an assistant professor at Ohio State University, Columbus. By 1993, she was appointed an associate professor and served in that capacity for four years.
As to Merrin’s writing activity, one of her first publications became an important book of criticism ‘An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Humility’, issued in 1990. The debut poetry collection of the author, ‘Shift’, followed seven years later. It was an introspective collection of verse about family members and her female lover, who has undergone treatment for cancer. The work generated mixed reviews among critics.
During the subsequent years, Jeredith Merrin completed two more collections of poems, ‘Bat Ode’ and ‘CUP’.
Merrin’s articles and literary reviews, as well as her poetry, have been published in various issue-related journals, such as the Southern Review, the Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Ms., the Paris Review, and other periodicals.
Nowadays, a retired Professor of English, Jeredith Merrin lives not far from Phoenix, Arizona.
Jeredith Merrin is an accomplished educator and author whose influential book of criticism on Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop as well as her poetry occupy a rightful place in the field of literature. Her works are represented in many anthologies.
A talented researcher of literary field and a brilliant poet, Merrin has been a recipient of various grants, including those from Lilly Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In addition to 1993 Elizabeth Gee Award she received for research on women, the author has also been a finalist of Lambda Literary Award, and a special honoree of the 2013 Able Muse Book Award.
(Merrin’s third collection deftly muses on art, travel to ...)
2014(The poems from the collection speak to the way we live to...)
2001(The poetry collection traces the love between two women o...)
1997(The lovely poetry collection contains poems about owls an...)
2016(An influential book of criticism by Jeredith Merrin.)
1990Jeredith Merrin has a daughter, Lisa Merrin Williams.
