Mharlyn Merritt
Mharlyn Merritt is a writer, Jazz vocalist and documentary film producer. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh-Dickinson University. The Actor is her first novel.
As a Jazz vocalist, Mharlyn has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Jazz Performance a.... more
Mharlyn Merritt is a writer, Jazz vocalist and documentary film producer. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh-Dickinson University. The Actor is her first novel.
As a Jazz vocalist, Mharlyn has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Jazz Performance and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship. She received a PBS Independent Producer’s award from WHYY in Philadelphia for the documentary short, “The Handwriting on the Wall.” Mharlyn has sat on the Broadcast in the Arts judging panel for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and served as a Judge for the first Philadelphia World Film Festival. She has studied play writing with Bruce Graham (Coyote on a Fence, Burkie, Minor Demons) and screenwriting with Joseph C. Stinson (City Heat, Sudden Impact, Heartbreak Ridge).
Her writing has appeared in The Philadelphia Daily News, The Village Voice, Gateways, PoetrySuperHighway.com and The Poet’s Republic (Scotland) among other publications.
She lives and writes in Philadelphia, PA., where she is hard at work on her second novel, The Rachel Montoya Story.
