Sebastian Merrill

Sebastian Merrill’s (he/him) debut collection GHOST :: SEEDS won the 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize (Texas Review Press, 2023). Merrill won the 2022 Levis Prize for Poetry, received the Rodney Jack Scholarship from Friends of Writers, and was a member of the 2023 Get the Word Out inaugural poetry cohort. He was a staff-scholar for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2022 and 2023 and was a summer 2023 Warren Wilson MFA Alumni Residency Fellow. Merrill has also received support from Tin House Workshop and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. He earned an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and a BA from Wellesley College.