Louise Meriwether has taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

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Fanny Merkin lives in a Beverly Hills mansion purchased using the embarrassingly large advance she received for Fifty Shames of Earl Grey. She is a former Walmart employee who writes under the pseudonym "Andrew Shaffer."

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Benjamin L. Merkle teaches Greek and New Testament at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

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Chris Merola loves to seek adventure. He has walked the shores of Antarctica, mined gold in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil, and hunted pigs in the mountains of Hawaii. But he also loves sitting on his deck in Connecticut having a cold one while watching the local wildlife.

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Sharan B. Merriam is professor emerita of adult education at the University of Georgia. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than fifteen books, including Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice and Qualitative Research in Practice.

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Catherine Merridale is the author of the critically acclaimed Night of Stone, winner of Britain's Heinemann Award for Literature. A professor of contemporary history at the University of London, she also writes for the London Review of Books, the New Statesman, and the Independent and presents features for the BBC.

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Thomas W. Merrill is the Charles Evans Hughes Professor at Columbia Law School. A former deputy solicitor general in the Department of Justice, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has twice been honored by the American Bar Association for his work on administrative law.

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Dawn Merriman writes creepy small-town murder mysteries from her small farm in northeast Indiana, where she lives with her husband and teenage children. You can often find her with muck boots on her feet and a story in her head. Visit her online at dawnmerriman.com.

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Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian, writer, and activist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South, and the coeditor of Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power.

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Keith Merron, a senior associate with Barbara Annis & Associates, received his doctorate from Harvard University in human and organizational development. He is the author of several books on personal and organizational change, including Inner Freedom: Living Authentically the Life You Were Truly Meant to Live.

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Robert W. Merry is president and publisher of Congressional Quarterly, Inc., and the author of the award-winning Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop—Guardians of the American Century.

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Poet, writer, academic and translator, Iman Mersal was born in Egypt and emigrated to Canada in 1999. First published in Arabic in 2019, Traces of Enayat won the prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, making Mersal the first woman to win its Literature category. Her most recent poetry collection is The Threshold.

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