Kathryn Merwin, a writer and editor from Washington, D.C., was born in 1993. She is currently enrolled as a dual-degree seeking student at Salisbury University on the eastern shore of Maryland, where she is studying English and Art. She plans to begin pursuing her MFA in the fall of 2016.

 

Kathryn’s writing generally focuses on themes. She enjoys the use of motif, color imagery, and often draws upon her genetic and familial background for inspiration in her writing. She finds ancestry and bloodlines particularly compelling, and is presently working on multiple poetry series. In 2015, Kathryn and two of her Creative Writing peers at Salisbury University, Charlotte Covey and Erin Traylor, founded Milk Journal, a journal of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

 

Kathryn’s honors and awards include the 2015 Nancy D. Hargrove Prize for Poetry, awarded by Jabberwock Review, as well as induction into the Lambda Iota Tau Honor Society.  She was invited to attend the 2015 Virginia Quarterly Review Writers’ Conference. Her poetry can be found or is forthcoming in publications such as Barely South Review, burntdistrict, Jabberwock Review, Slipstream, The Blueshift Journal, Wayne Literary Review, and Cheat River Review, among others.