Megan Merchant is a Prescott resident and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from UNLV. She is a multi-year Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poem, "Filling Station God" won the Las Vegas Poets Prize, judged by Tony Hoagland. Her second full-length collection,"The Dark's Humming" was the winner of the 2015 Lyrebird Prize (Glass Lyre Press, 2017). She is also the author of four chapbooks: Translucent, sealed. (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), In the Rooms of a Tiny House (ELJ Publications, October 2016), Unspeakable Light (Throwback Books, August 2016), and A Thousand Paper Cranes (Finishing Line Press). Gravel Ghosts is her debut full-length poetry collection through Glass Lyre Press. She also has a children's book forthcoming through Philomel Books. You can find her work at meganmerchant.wix.com/poet.